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Approve an agreement with the California Department of Health Care Services governing the administration and use of mobile crisis vehicles and related crisis services funded by the 2023 Crisis Care Mobile Units grant awarded to the Solano County Behavioral Health Division, for the period of July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2031; and Delegate authority to the County Administrator to execute the agreement, the Contractor Certification Clause, and any subsequent amendments with no fiscal impact, with County Counsel concurrence
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
The Department of Health and Social Services recommended that the Board:
1. Approve an agreement with the California Department of Health Care Services governing the administration and use of mobile crisis vehicles and related crisis services funded by the 2023 Crisis Care Mobile Units grant awarded to the Solano County Behavioral Health Division, for the period of July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2031; and
2. Delegate authority to the County Administrator to execute the agreement, the Contractor Certification Clause, and any subsequent amendments with no fiscal impact, with County Counsel concurrence.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
In 2023, Solano County received a Crisis Care Mobile Units (CCMU) grant funded by the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) through Advocates for Human Potential. The funding initiative helped counties develop, implement, or expand mobile behavioral health crisis and non-crisis response teams. Solano County received a $1,000,000 CCMU implementation award under Track 2: mobile crisis services implementation.
The grant supported mobile crisis readiness and service expansion in all cities throughout the County through vehicle purchases and operating costs, dispatch staffing, program coordination, planning with local and regional partners, training, marketing/outreach, and tec...
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