To: Board of Supervisors
From: Marla Stuart, Employment and Human Services Director
Report Title: CFS - Contract #20-720-0 Star View Children and Family Services, Inc. dba Star View Community Treatment Facility
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract with Star View Children and Family Services, Inc. dba Star View Community Treatment Facility, in an amount not to exceed $339,978 to provide youth residential placement services for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026.
FISCAL IMPACT:
50% Federal, 50% State Realignment Funds, which is budgeted in FY 25-26.
BACKGROUND:
Star View Children and Family Services, Inc. dba Star View Community Treatment Facility (Star View) provides residential placement services for youth who cannot live safely in family homes or lower-level group care because of the nature and severity of their emotional and behavioral needs. Star View's Community Treatment Facility (CTF) offer alternatives to repeated placement failures. Star View stabilizes, provides treatment, and then transitions youth to less restrictive placements, including with family, foster families, or lower-level group homes as part of each youth's long-term permanency plan.
Previous agreements for similar services with Star View Children and Family Services, Inc.'s affiliate, Star View Behavioral Health, Inc., were authorized by the Board of Supervisors on June 25, 2024 (24-1853), May 16, 2023 (C.35) for FY23/24, May 24, 2022 (C.39) for FY22/23, on June 8, 2021 (C.78) for FY21/22 and on Oct 13, 2020 (C. 11) for FY 20/21.
CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:
This contract supports all of Contra Costa County's community outcomes of the Children's Report Card", (1) "Children Ready for and Succeeding in School"; (2) "Children and Youth Healthy and Preparing for Productive Adulthood"; (3) "Families that are Economic...
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