The Health Services Department is requesting to add one Administrative Services Assistant II position in Behavioral Health Division’s Children’s Mental Health Services Program. The position will be assigned to the Children's Services Administration and will primarily support the implementation and continued expansion of the Continuum of Care Reform. The position will also: assist with the certification, billing and reconciliation of short-term residential treatment placement facilities and foster family agency; provide additional support to the Service Authorization Request process; serve as the primary person responsible for tracking and reporting on a database for Behavioral Health and Child and Family Services related to the newly required and implemented Presumptive Transfer for Child and Family Services for youth crossing county lines; assist the project manager, Continuum of Care Reform program manager, and program chief in gathering information for reports and conduct data analyses related to presumptive transfer, Service Authorization Requests, and Continuum of Care initiatives and their interrelationship; and assist in monitoring and evaluating contracts for the Children’s System of Care. The department has determined the appropriate classification to fulfill this need is an Administrative Services Assistant II.

If this action is not approved, the Behavioral Health Division’s Children’s Mental Health Program will not have adequate staff to support the Continuum of Care Reform implementation nor be able to properly manage and monitor its contractual agreements, budgets and service plans as effectively.