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Santa Clara County behavioral health reports expansion of school-based services, highlights sustainability work
Summary
Behavioral Health Services reported fiscal year 2025 schooling services activity — including school-based wellness centers, program participation counts, and next steps to sustain services under a state fee schedule — and the committee voted to receive the report and forward it to the full Board with additional follow-up items.
Behavioral Health Services presented its annual schooling services report Oct. 7 to the Children, Seniors and Families Committee, summarizing FY 2025 program activity, school-based wellness center rollouts and plans to pursue sustainable financing for school mental-health services.
The report said the schooling services family engagement program — operating in partnership with 27 school districts — served roughly 7,400 students in FY 2025 and the department recorded 11,906 referrals into schooling services programs. Staff said 40 school-based behavioral health wellness center projects have launched under the county grant program and that local education agencies such as the County Office of Education and Sunnyvale Unified have started billing under the Department of Health Care Services’ multi‑payer school-based Medi‑Cal fee schedule.
Catherine Spares, division director with Behavioral Health Services, said…
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