RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Contract #74-341-84(10) with Carolina Castillo, LMFT, an individual, in an amount not to exceed $238,000, to provide Medi-Cal specialty mental health services for the period from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2024.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this contract will result in budgeted expenditures of up $238,000 over a 2-year period and will be funded by 50% Federal Medi-Cal and 50% State Mental Health Realignment. (Rate increase)
BACKGROUND:
On January 14, 1997, the Board of Supervisors adopted Resolution #97/17, authorizing the Health Services Director to contract with the State Department of Mental Health, (now known as the Department of Health Care Services) to assume responsibility for Medi-Cal specialty mental health services. Responsibility for outpatient specialty mental health services involves contracts with individual, group and organizational providers to deliver these services.
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