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FROM: Contra
Mark Finucane, Health Services Director �Qsla
By: ; Elizabeth A. Spooner, Contracts Administrat
DATE: September 5, 1991 County
SUBJECT: Approval of Novation Contract #24-360-3 with Mental Health Consumer
Concerns, Inc. for Contra Costa Network of Mental Health Clients
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) 8: BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I. RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Approve and authorize the Chair to execute on behalf of the County,
Novation Contract #24-360-3 with Mental Health Consumer Concerns, Inc. ,
in the amount of $60,000 for the period July 1, 1991 through June 30,
1993 for a self-help program for the ad hoc "Contra Costa Network of
Mental Health Clients" group. This Contract includes a six-month
automatic extension for the period from June 30, 1993 through December
31, 1993 in the amount of $15, 000.
II. FINANCIAL IMPACT:
This contract is included in the Health Services Depa tment budget
projection for Fiscal Year 1991-92 and will be inc uded in the
Department's Fiscal Year 1992-93 budget projection.
III. REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS/BACKGROUND:
On July 17, 1990 the Board approved Contract #24-360-2 which estab-
lished two peer self-help groups in each of the three regions of the
County: one focusing on clients with mental disabilities only and the
other on those clients with mental disabilities in addition to problems
with use/abuse of alcohol and/or drugs. Contract #24-36,0-2 contained
a six-month automatic extension through December 31, 19?1. Novation
Contract #24-360-3 replaces the automatic extension under the prior
contract and continues services through June 30, 1993 .
This program provides clients the opportunity to obtain peer support at
times of stress through support groups and contacts with individual
participants. The program also provides transportation of client
participants to self-help meetings and planned activities.
Approval of Novation Contract #24-360-3 is required to maintain the
staffing and program activities at the level necessary to impact mental
health clients in a significant manner. In the future, these groups
will provide cost savings to the Mental Health System as they develop
as a viable alternative to reliance on this system. Increased self-
esteem is the visible evidence of the effect of self-help. Several
consumers of mental health care have become members of the Mental
Health Advisory Board and its Committees, the Contra Costa Mental
Health Coalition and various Mental Health planning committees.
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