DATE:
June 3, 2025
05
TO:
Board of Supervisors
SUBJECT
Title
AUTHORIZE ACCEPTANCE OF BOND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CONTINUUM INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM GRANT FUNDS (DISTRICTS: ALL)
Body
OVERVIEW
In March 2024, California voters passed Proposition 1 that includes the Behavioral Health Services Act and the Behavioral Health Infrastructure Bond Act of 2023. This legislation authorized $6.38 billion in general obligation bonds to expand behavioral health treatment, residential care settings, and housing to support people with mental health conditions and substance use disorders. Funds from the bonds were allocated to competitive grants for facilities that provide behavioral health treatment and residential settings, including tribal entities and serving individuals who are homeless or at risk of homelessness with behavioral health needs.
In July 2024, the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) released a request for applications for the Bond Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (Bond BHCIP) that provided $4.4 billion in competitive grant funds to counties, cities, tribal entities, nonprofit, and for-profit entities, for behavioral health capital infrastructure. The County of San Diego (County) Health and Human Services Agency, Behavioral Health Services (BHS) applied for the Bond BHCIP funds. Subsequently, on May 6, 2025, BHS received a notice of a conditional grant award, totaling $29.8 million of funding, with $21.9 million for the Substance Use Residential and Treatment Services (SURTS) facility and $7.9 million for the new Children's Crisis Residential Care facility.
Today's action requests the San Diego County Board of Supervisors authorize the acceptance of $29.8 million in one-time grant funds from the DHCS for capital infrastructure at the SURTS facility and the new Children's Crisis Residential Care facility and to waive Board Policy B-29, Fees, Grants, Revenue Contracts - Department Responsibility for Cost Recovery, which r...
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