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Committee forwards DPH contract amendments and retroactive grants for behavioral health and disease prevention
Summary
The Budget & Finance Committee forwarded items 4–8 as committee reports: amendments to DPH agreements with UCSF for child/adolescent and infant-parent mental-health programs (item 4 amended to a $19.8 million not-to-exceed amount), and retroactive grant acceptances for Project InVEST ($9.8M), a $500,000 COVID Test-to-Treat equity grant, and a syphilis prevention SOS grant (approx. $2.6M award timing). Supervisors pressed DPH on trauma definitions, wait lists and retroactive timing.
The committee voted June 9 to forward a package of Department of Public Health contract amendments and retroactive grant acceptances to the full Board as committee reports.
Item 4 requested an amendment to DPH’s agreement with University of California, San Francisco, to continue the Child and Adolescent Services outpatient program and the Forte school-based prevention program. DPH Director Dr. Faranaz Faramont described CAS as providing specialty outpatient services for children and youth who have experienced trauma or present serious emotional or behavioral problems, serving clients on Medi-Cal and referrals from San Francisco General and school partners. The Budget and Legislative Analyst recommended reducing Item 4’s not-to-exceed total to…
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