RECOMMENDATION(S):
Approve and authorize the Health Services Director, or his designee (Donna Wigand), to execute, on behalf of the County, Novation Contract #74–320–4 with The West Contra Costa Youth Service Bureau, a non-profit corporation, in an amount not to exceed $475,381, to provide school-based mental health services to Seriously Emotionally Disturbed students in West County, for the period from July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010. This contract includes a six-month automatic extension through December 31, 2010 in an amount not to exceed $237,690.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This Contract is funded 62% by Federal Medi-Cal, 35% by State Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT), and 3% by West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD). There is no cost to County.
BACKGROUND:
This Contract meets the social needs of County’s population in that it provides school and community based mental health services to County-designated Seriously Emotionally Disturbed (SED) elementary, middle school, and high school students within the WCCUSD, and their families.
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