TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Jennifer Yasumoto, Director of Health and Human Services Agency
REPORT BY: Gaby Angeles, Staff Services Analyst II
SUBJECT: Amendments to Agreements with Progress Foundation, Inc.
RECOMMENDATION
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Approve and authorize Amendment No. 3 to Agreement No. 220003B for $920,190 and Amendment No. 3 to Agreement No. 220004B for $1,165,320 with Progress Foundation, Inc., for mental health services in Fiscal Year 2024-2025. (Fiscal Impact: $2,085,510 Expense; Health and Human Services Agency Fund; Budgeted; Mandatory).
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BACKGROUND
Napa County's Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) has agreements with Progress Foundation, Inc., (Progress) for the provision of residential mental health services for adults experiencing mental illness. For many years, Progress has operated a crisis residential program (Progress Place) and a transitional mental health residential program (Bella House) under these agreements.
Progress Place is designed to provide short-term residential care and mental health services to individuals who could be at psychiatric risk to themselves or others, and who may otherwise require psychiatric hospitalization. The goal of Progress Place is to stabilize clients, using a therapeutic milieu where clients are restored and able to return to a pre-crisis level of functioning, thereby avoiding a higher or more extensive level of inpatient care or long term-placements in Institutions for Mental Disease (IMDs). Progress Place serves an average of 110 individuals per year.
Bella House provides housing and mental health services in a structured therapeutic environment to Napa County adults significantly impaired by a serious mental illness. Bella House is considered "transitional housing", which means clients can stay up to 18 months. Often this is an alternative to more restrictive/locked mental health facilities. Bella House aims to transition clients from higher levels of mental health institutional care to more indep...
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