RECOMMENDATION(S):
Approve and authorize the Health Services Director, or his designee, to execute, on behalf of the County, Contract #74–058–13 with Seneca Residential and Day Treatment Center for Children, a non-profit corporation, in an amount not to exceed $203,356, to provide intensive crisis stabilization services to youth through the Mobile Crisis Response Teams for the period from January 1, 2011 through June 30, 2011. This Contract includes a six-month automatic extension through December 31, 2011, in an amount not to exceed $203,356.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This Contract is funded 39% by Federal FFP Medi-Cal, 25% by State Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT), and 36% by County Mental Health Realignment. (No rate increase)
BACKGROUND:
This Contract meets the social needs of County’s population by providing intensive crisis stabilization services to Seriously Emotionally Disturbed (SED) children and adolescents (and their families) in high-risk situations, to reduce the need for psychiatric hospitalization.
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