To: Board of Supervisors
From: Dr. Ori Tzvieli, Interim Health Services Director
Report Title: Contract Amendment #25-071-14 with Public Health Foundation Enterprise, Inc. (dba Heluna Health)
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Interim Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Contract Amendment #25-071-14 with Public Health Foundation Enterprises (dba Heluna Health), a non-profit corporation, effective January 1, 2025, to amend Contract #25-071-13 to increase the payment limit by $326,365, from $9,888,048 to a new payment limit of $10,214,413 for additional operating costs to provide shelter, coordinated entry (CE), and transitional and permanent supportive housing programs services for homeless youth and adults in Contra Costa County with no change in the term ending June 30, 2025.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this Contract Amendment will result in additional budgeted of up to $326,365 as funded 100% by State Funds. (No rate increase)
BACKGROUND:
This Contract meets the social needs of the County's population by providing shelter, CE, and transitional and permanent supportive housing programs services for homeless youth and adults in Contra Costa County. CORE provides outreach services and serves as an entry point into the County's CE system (CES) for unsheltered persons and work to locate, engage, stabilize and house chronically homeless individuals. Public Health Foundation Enterprises, Inc. has been providing CORE services to the County under this agreement since October 1, 2020. This Contractor has a long-standing relationship with Contra Costa County and has routinely demonstrated specialized expertise in providing full scope Human Resources to employees operating under Health, Housing and Homeless Services. This includes services provided to Emergency Shelters, Transitional Housing Programs, CORE, CE, Continuum of Care (CoC), and Resear...
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