TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Steve Lederer, Director of Public Works
REPORT BY: Daniel Basore, Engineering Supervisor
SUBJECT: Project creation, budget amendment, and agreement for the "Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU) - Children's Services Expansion Project" PW 24-15
RECOMMENDATION
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Approve and authorize creation of Capital Improvement Project 24027 for the "Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU) - Children's Services Expansion" PW 24-15, approve a Budget Amendment, and approve and authorize Agreement No. 240326B with TLCD Architecture for a maximum of $466,286 for design and construction administration services. (Fiscal Impact: $800,000 Expense; HHSA Fund; Not Budgeted; Discretionary)
[4/5 vote required]
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BACKGROUND
The Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) was authorized through Welfare and Institutions Code Sections 5960-5960.45 to establish the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (BHCIP) with $2.2 billion to construct, acquire, and rehabilitate real estate assets or to invest in needed mobile crisis infrastructure to expand the community continuum of behavioral health treatment resources. DHCS is releasing BHCIP grant funds through six rounds that target various gaps in the state's behavioral health facility infrastructure.
BHCIP aims to reduce homelessness, incarceration, unnecessary hospitalizations, and inpatient days and improve outcomes for people with behavioral health conditions by expanding access to community-based treatment. BHCIP proposes to invest in the expansion of beds, units, or rooms by building new behavioral health continuum infrastructure and expanding capacity. These resources would expand the continuum of services by increasing capacity for short-term crisis stabilization, acute and sub-acute care, crisis residential, community-based mental health residential treatment, substance use disorder residential treatment, peer respite, mobile crisis, community and outpatient behavioral health services, and other cli...
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