RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract with Star View Behavioral Health, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $476,453 to provide residential placement services for the period July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This contract is funded with 30% County General Fund and 70% State Realignment funds, all of which is already budgeted in FY 2023-24.
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.
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