To: Board of Supervisors
From: Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Report Title: Contract Amendment #74-315-26 with EMBRACE
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Contract Amendment Agreement #74-315-26 with EMBRACE, a non-profit corporation, effective July 1, 2023, to amend Contract #74-315-24, to increase the payment limit by $1,573,593, from $2,052,425 to a new payment limit of $3,626,018, with no change in the original term ending June 30, 2024.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this amendment will result in additional annual expenditures of up to $1,573,593 and will be funded as budgeted by the department in FY 2023-24, 100% by Early and Periodic Screening and Diagnostic Treatment Fund. (Rate Increase)
BACKGROUND:
This contract meets the social needs of the county by providing Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS) to Seriously Emotionally Disturbed (SED) children who have been discharged from a hospital or have failed in other placements. Contractor shall also provide a Multisystemic Behavioral and Functional Family Therapy program for adolescents who are discharged from Juvenile Hall and the Orin Allen Youth Rehabilitation Facility. The county has been contracting with EMBRACE since December 2007.
On June 27, 2023, the Board of Supervisors approved Contract #74-315-25 with EMBRACE, in an amount not to exceed $2,052,425 for the provision of TBS and outpatient mental health services to SED children and their families for the period July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024.
Approval of Contract Amendment Agreement #74-315-26 will allow the contractor to provide additional TBS and outpatient mental health services to SED children and their families through June 30, 2024.
Due to administrative changes in novation contracting practices, the department requested this amendment to cover all necessary expenses for a full fiscal year term.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
If this amendment is no...
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