DATE: October 23, 2018
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Dawan Utecht, Director, Department of Behavioral Health
SUBJECT: Retroactive Master Agreement for Cultural Specific Services
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
1. Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute a retroactive Master Agreement with providers of Cultural Specific Services, effective October 1, 2018 through June 30, 2023, which includes a two-year and nine-month base contract and two optional one-year extensions, total not to exceed $10,723,130 (4/5 vote).
2. Authorize the Director of the Department of Behavioral Health, or designee, to add and delete provider(s) to the Master Agreement, as necessary, with oversight and approval from Internal Services Department - Purchasing Division.
REPORT
Approval of the first recommended action will allow for the uninterrupted provision of cultural specific specialty mental health services currently provided to the Southeast Asian (SEA) adult and older adult population with serious mental illness (SMI), and for expansion of services to include more levels of care, additional cultural/ethnic/linguistic populations, and persons not currently being served. The second recommended action will allow for future additions and/or deletions of providers for other unserved and underserved populations. Funding reallocations within the Master Agreement with existing and/or new providers will allow them meet service needs, without exceeding the annual contract maximum.
It should be noted that because County employees have been performing cultural specific behavioral health services for certain cultural/ethnic/linguistic populations such as Asian Pacific Islanders (API) that have been identified as additional target populations to be served under Cultural Specific Services expansion, Section 13 of the County Charter specifies that a 4/5 vote is required for contract approval. Once a qualified provider of services under the Master Agreement has been identified, cu...
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