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County financial agreement and local plan: mental-health provider flags funding shortfalls, homelessness and bilingual-provider gaps
Summary
Shaira of CBH summarized a dense county financial agreement with the Oregon Health Authority and presented a draft local-plan priority list that emphasizes funding shortfalls identified in a state cost study, a shortage of shelter beds, need for crisis stabilization centers, youth respite, and more Spanish-speaking providers.
At the meeting the council reviewed a draft county financial agreement and local plan that Shaira (representing the community mental health program, CBH) said will be submitted to the Oregon Health Authority as part of contract negotiations.
Shaira described the county financial agreement (CFAA) as the contract that makes the CMHP the local safety-net provider, obligating it to deliver required services for uninsured and underinsured residents. She said counties were asked to prepare local plans that explain how they will meet contract expectations and to identify unmet service needs in priority order. Shaira said the next version of the local plan was due to…
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