To: Board of Supervisors
From: Dr. Grant Colfax, Health Services Director
Report Title: Agreement #78-107 with the California Department of Health Care Services
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Standard Agreement #78-107 (State #25-50252) with the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), to allow the County the rights to use DHCS property and vehicles for the County's mobile crisis program, A3 (Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere), to provide outreach and crisis response services to individuals in Contra Costa County, for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2031.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This is a non-financial Agreement.
BACKGROUND:
This Agreement will provide County with the rights to use the California Department of Health Care Services ("DHCS") property and vehicles to serve individuals in crisis located in Martinez. DHCS oversees the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (BHCIP) pursuant to Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code ??5960-5960.4. DHCS established the BHCIP Round 1 Grants to award competitive grants to qualified entities to support behavioral health mobile crisis and non-crisis services, and to fund Crisis Care Mobile Units (CCMU).
DHCS awarded the County a BHCIP Round 1 grant to purchase vehicles necessary for CCMU teams to reach and serve individuals in crisis in Contra Costa County and to operate the vehicles for their intended purposes as identified in the grant application. DHCS retains full ownership of the vehicles, and the Grantee holds only a leasehold interest in the vehicles for use as specified in this Agreement.
As part of DHCS's grant award to the County, the County entered into Contract #78-103, AHP-21-10349 ("Prime Contract"), with Advocates for Human Potential (AHP), who is acting as DHCS's agent to administer Round 1 grants, to undertake the Grantee's purchase of ...
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