To: Board of Supervisors
From: Marla Stuart, Employment and Human Services Director
Report Title: Contract # 20-269-5 Star View Behavioral Health, Inc.
?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 Behavioral Health, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $327,480 to provide residential placement services for the period July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.
FISCAL IMPACT:
$327,480: 70% State Realignment Funds, 30% County General Fund, all of which is budgeted in FY 24-25.
BACKGROUND:
Star View Behavioral Health, Inc. (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 locked Psychiatric Health Facility (PHF) and Community Treatment Facility (CTF) offer alternatives to repeated psychiatric hospitalization and 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 these services with Star View were authorized by the Board of Supervisors on May 16, 2023 (C.35) for FY23/24, May 24, 2022 (C.39) for FY22/23, June 8, 2021 (C.78) for FY21/22 and 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 Economically Self-Sufficient"; (4) "Families that are Safe, Stable and Nurturing"; and (5) "Communities that are Safe and Provide a High Quality of Life for Children and Families".
CONSE...
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