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Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) recommending the Board:
1) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign Funding In Agreement 6256 with Advocates for Human Potential, Inc. for the Crisis Care Mobile Units (CCMU) Program Planning Grant, for a retroactive term beginning September 15, 2021 through February 14, 2023 in the amount of $200,000; and
2) Authorize the HHSA Director, or designee, to execute further documents or amendments that do not change the amount or term relating to Agreement 6256, contingent upon approval by County Counsel and Risk Management, and to further authorize the HHSA Director or the HHSA Chief Fiscal Officer to execute any required fiscal and programmatic reports.
FUNDING: 100% California Department of Health Care Services Crisis Care Mobile Unit Program Grant.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND:
The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) developed the Crisis Care Mobile Unit Program (CCMU) to utilize $150 million in funding received from the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (BHCIP), and $55 million received from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration through the Coronavirus Response and Relief Appropriations Act (CRRSAA) to support and expand behavioral health mobile crisis and non-crisis services. The County of El Dorado Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) submitted a plan and application for CCMU Program Planning Grant funding, and DHCS awarded $200,000 on October 11, 2021 to implement the plan.
DHCS contracted with Advocates for Human Potential, Inc. (AHP) to be the Administrative Entity of the grant agreement, and HHSA received Funding In Agreement 6256 (7460-CA MOBILE CRISIS-ELDORADO-01) from AHP in February 2022. HHSA immediately began processing the Agreement and worked with County Counsel and AHP for several months to finalize the Agreement. The final Funding In Agreement 6256 is retroactive to September 15, 2021 continuing through February 14, 2023, with ...
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