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Adopt a resolution authorizing the Department of Health and Social Services to submit an application to the California Department of Health Care Services in response to the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (BHCIP) Round 2 - Unmet Needs Program Request for Applications, for an award not to exceed $39 million; and Authorize the County Administrator to sign the application and if awarded, the Program Funding Agreement and all other documents necessary to secure the Program grant funds
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
The Department of Health and Social Services recommends that the Board of Supervisors adopt a resolution authorizing the Department of Health and Social Services to submit an application to the California Department of Health Care Services in response to the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (BHCIP) Round 2 - Unmet Needs Program Request for Applications, for an award not to exceed $39 million and authorize the County Administrator to sign the application and if awarded, the Program Funding Agreement and all other documents necessary to secure the Program grant funds, on behalf of the County.
SUMMARY:
The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), through its contractor Advocates for Human Potential, Inc., has released a Request for Applications (RFA) for the Proposition 1 Bond Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (BHCIP) Round 2 - Unmet Needs Program, under the Behavioral Health Infrastructure Bond Act of 2024. Funding must be used for infrastructure projects which expand community-based facility capacity exclusively for behavioral health services in the continuum of care and address unmet needs.
Solano County Health and Social Services, Behavioral Health Division, seeks Board approval to apply for these funds to develop a new Solano Behavioral Health Crisis and Recovery Center ...
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