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Behavioral Health updates: mobile crisis funding risk, opioid settlement projects, CalAIM housing supports
Summary
Lake County Behavioral Health reported potential state budget changes that could shift mobile crisis costs to counties, outlined opioid settlement‑funded projects including a 16‑bed ASAM facility and youth intensive outpatient program, discussed repayment of intergovernmental loans, and said it plans to opt into CalAIM transitional housing supports.
Lake County Behavioral Health Director Elise Jones briefed supervisors on Jan. 27 on a range of program and fiscal matters, including a state budget proposal that would reduce the state share for mobile crisis services and shift more cost to counties.
Jones said mobile crisis services are presently paid by state and federal Medicaid funding with no local share; the proposed budget change would create a county exposure that could force reductions in services. She described the county’s…
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