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Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) recommending the Board:
1) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign zero-cost Vehicle Use Agreement 9982 with the California Department of Health Care Services, which governs the use of a mobile crisis vehicle that was purchased with HHSA awarded Crisis Care Mobile Units (CCMU) grant funds, and imposes restrictions on funding resulting from the potential sale of the vehicle by the County, for the retroactive term of six years from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2031;
2) Authorize the Purchasing Agent to execute amendments relating to Agreement 9982, contingent upon approval by County Counsel and Risk Management, which do not increase the maximum dollar amount or term of the Agreement; and
3) Authorize the HHSA Director, or the Chief Assistant Director, to execute programmatic, administrative, and fiscal documents relating to Agreement 9982.
FUNDING: State General Funds funded through Advocates for Human Potential CCMU grant program.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND:
In early 2021, DHCS developed the CCMU grant program to support and expand behavioral health mobile crisis and non-crisis services throughout the State. DHCS contracted with AHP to be the Administrative Entity of the CCMU awarded grant agreements.
On October 11, 2021, HHSA’s Behavioral Health Division (BHD) applied to the CCMU grant. In February 2022, AHP notified BHD that their application had been selected for an initial $200,000 planning grant for the development of an Action Plan (AP) that addressed the need of mobile crisis and non-crisis outreach programs in the County. On June 14, 2022, the Board accepted this planning grant via Funding-In Agreement 6256 (Legistar file 21-1989). Subsequently, BHD submitted its AP to AHP, outlining that HHSA would provide mobile behavioral health crisis services throughout the County. This AP included the purchase of two outreach vehicles with customized safety equipment built to enhanced specifications, estimated to ...
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