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C. 65

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Kathy Gallagher, Employment & Human Services Director
Date:	October 13, 2020

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Costa

County

Subject:

Contract with Star View Children and Family Services, Inc. for Residential Placement Services

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 10/13/2020

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:

C. Youngblood, (925) 608-4964

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: October 13, 2020
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract with Star View Behavioral Health, Inc., a non-profit corporation, in an amount not to exceed $425,981 to provide residential placement services for the period July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021.

FISCAL IMPACT:

This contract will increase expenditures by $425,981 funded 30% by County General Fund and 70% by State Realignment funds.

BACKGROUND:

Star View Behavioral Health, Inc. (Star View) provides residential placement services for youth who cannot live safely in family homes or lower level group care because of the nature and severity of their emotional and behavioral needs. Star View’s locked Psychiatric Health Facility (PHF) and Community Treatment Facility (CTF) offer alternatives to repeated psychiatric hospitalization and placement failures. Star View stabilizes, provides treatment, and then transitions youth to less restrictive placements, including with family, foster families, or lower level group homes as part of each youth’s long-term permanency plan.

The sixteen (16) bed locked PHF will provide 24-hour intensive services to adolescents with severe emotional needs. This program provides intensive evaluation and treatment services, including the preparation of comprehensive multidisciplinary assessments by a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, rehabilitation therapist, and licensed nurse, the development of a coordinated treatment plan, and the provision of quality acute rehabilitative treatment services by a well qualified staff in a therapeutic milieu.

The CTF program will provide residential treatment services for clients under the age of 18 on a 24-hour/7-day/week basis to youth requiring a secured treatment facility due to their severe emotional needs. CTF residential services will include 24-hour supervision and nursing care, activity program, social services supports, and room and board. Mental health services will be provided as medically necessary and designated per treatment plan.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

Dependent youth in need of integrated treatment services will not receive the skills to effectively manage the behavior(s) or symptoms that are a barrier to achieving and/or maintaining a residence in less restrictive environments, such as with a resource family.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

This contract supports all five of the community outcomes established in the Children's Report Card: 1) "Children Ready for and Succeeding in School"; 2) "Children and Youth Healthy and Preparing for Productive Adulthood"; 3) "Families that are Economically Self Sufficient"; 4) "Families that are Safe, Stable and Nurturing"; and 5) "Communities that are Safe and Provide a High Quality of Life for Children and Families" by providing residential placement services to youth who cannot live safely in family homes.