BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Anthony Hobson, Director
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About the Behavioral Health Department
The Behavioral Health Department responsibility is to plan for and provide high quality consumer centered and family friendly, prevention, education and clinical services to the residents of Colusa County while making access to services easier, producing more effective, better outcomes and reducing the need for out-of-home and institutional care.
Significant Accomplishments for Fiscal Year 2021-22:
- Made Significant Strides in Implementing New Electronic Health Records (EHR) System:
- Helped to Develop Permanent Affordable Housing with Health and Human Services and the Regional Housing Authority.
- Recruited, selected, and hired a new Behavioral Health Director.
- Started to develop local residential capacity for those conserved persons needing supervised licensed care with the purchase of a 9 bedroom home for Adult Residential Care.
- Promote a Youth Center in collaboration with Probation, HHS, and Office of Education.
- Expanded outreach, engagement and treatment services to all persons incarcerated in the jail or on probation with the opening of our new PATH program.
- Opened our wellness center Safe Haven.
Goals & Objectives for Fiscal Year 2022-23:
- Add a Therapist to our Adult, Children's, and Crisis programs to help with the increased demand for services post Covid
- Expand our Alcohol and Other Drug Services by adding a Board-Certified Psychiatrist for six hours a week.
- Follow the evaluation plan as developed by CIBHS for our MHSA Innovation program-PATH.
- Launch the Youth Center project.
- Bring in more clients to Safe Haven our wellness center.
- Operationalize the Adult Residential Facility.
- Implement and come into compliance with the State's Cal-AIM initiative and select a new EHR system that mirrors the compliance requirements of DHCS.
- Hire 5 staff and deploy them out to the school districts utilizing our MHSSA grant.
- Finally, in FY 22/23, BH will attempt to find the correct balance between investing revenue in community programing and at the same time being fiscally prudent in spending down allocated revenues. It is critical that the Department serve the needs of the community, yet it is equally important to assure that every program has the sustainable income to fiscally support the program without interruption. The goal for FY 22/23 will be to closely scrutinize all the accounts with the Department to keep a healthy reserve but also to address the needs that are clearly on the table.
Summary of Major Budget Changes:
- Increase in Salary & Benefits for new staff and salary adjustments in FY 21/22.
- Increase in Professional/Specialized services due to contracting out all Psychiatric services.
- Increase in multiple MHSA budgets due to opening new programs.
- Increase in costs to refurbish the Adult Residential Facility.
- Significant contribution made to the General Fund to provide for additional behavioral health outreach and forensic programs.