To: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
From: Behavioral Health and Recovery Services
Meeting Date: February 25, 2025
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Department Contact: |
Jenine Miller, Psy.D. |
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707-472-2341 |
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Item Type: Consent Agenda |
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Time Allocated for Item: N/A |
Agenda Title:
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Approval of Retroactive Agreement with Community Care on Palm in the Amount of $50,000 to Provide Residential Care to Mendocino County Lanterman-Petris-Short Clients, for the Period of October 01, 2024, through June 30, 2025
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Recommended Action/Motion:
recommendation
Approve retroactive Agreement with Community Care on Palm in the amount of $50,000 to provide residential care to Mendocino County Lanterman-Petris-Short clients for the period of October 01, 2024, through June 30, 2025; authorize the Health Services Director to sign any future amendments that do not increase the annual maximum amount; and authorize Chair to sign same.
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Previous Board/Board Committee Actions:
None.
Summary of Request:
The Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act is the California law governing the involuntary civil commitment of individuals who, due to mental illness, pose a danger to themselves, a danger to others, or who are gravely disabled and require inpatient psychiatric care. The intent of the LPS Act was to end inappropriate lifetime commitment of people with mental illness and firmly establish their right to due process while significantly reducing state institutional expense.
Pursuant to the requirements of the LPS Act, Mendocino County is responsible for providing residential care services to LPS clients who are court-mandated to receive a specific level of care requiring a structured environment due to mental health challenges. Currently, there are no local facilities in Mendocino County that are able to provide all levels of care as mandated by the courts. In addition, there is a shortage of residential care facilities statewide, which creates competition for these placements. As a result, Behavioral Health and Recovery Services (BHRS) contracts with multiple residential care facilities in order to help manage the shortage, and to maintain current client placements ensuring the most appropriate care within the largest possible placement options.
Community Care on Palm provides services classified as psychiatric/psychological rehabilitation in a mental health rehabilitation center located in Riverside, California. Community Care on Palm provides long term care for adults with serious mental illness by operating an Intensive Day Treatment while operating as a mental health rehabilitation center. Intensive Day Treatment is appropriate for seriously mentally ill clients who may have a concurrent medical problem(s) because of the severity of their mental illness. These clients require additional services, and at times, more intensive supervision, and specialized treatment plans. Intensive Day treatment is an alternative to, and diversion from, State hospital placements.
This agreement is retroactive, as the Mendocino County beneficiary was placed in this facility by a
Mendocino-contracted agency affiliated with this facility. Subsequent to becoming more acute than that facility could continue to stabilize and support, the beneficiary was placed in this facility without prior approval, as this facility was able to support the beneficiary's higher acuity of need. Contract processing began as soon as we learned of placement.
Alternative Action/Motion:
Return to staff for alternative handling.
Strategic Plan Priority Designation: A Safe and Healthy County
Supervisorial District: All
Vote Requirement: Majority
Supplemental Information Available Online At: N/A
Fiscal Details:
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source of funding: 4050 |
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current f/y cost: $50,000 |
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budget clarification: Varies by utilization |
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annual recurring cost: None |
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budgeted in current f/y (if no, please describe): Yes |
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revenue agreement: No |
AGREEMENT/RESOLUTION/ORDINANCE APPROVED BY COUNTY COUNSEL: N/A
CEO Liaison: Tony Rakes, Deputy CEO
CEO Review: Yes
CEO Comments:
FOR COB USE ONLY
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Executed By: Atlas Pearson, Senior Deputy Clerk |
Final Status: Approved |
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Date: February 25, 2025 |
Executed Item Type: Agreement |
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Number: 25-018 |
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