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| Increase funding for comprehensive crisis services system |
Decision Package |
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Provides support for the continued expansion and modernization of the statewide crisis services system by investing in crisis receiving centers and crisis stabilization units. Funding is also provided for five additional administrative positions to support the continued growth of the crisis system. |
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FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$58,345,204 |
| Positions |
0.00 |
5.00 |
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| • |
| Pursue hospital-based psychiatric emergency alternatives |
Decision Package |
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Provides funds to pursue hospital-based psychiatric emergency alternatives and/or supplemental payment programs to redirect care to more appropriate settings. |
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FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$20,000,000 |
|
| • |
| Provide one-time funds for mobile crisis units |
Decision Package |
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Provides one-time funds to contract with private providers to establish mobile crisis units in underserved areas. |
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FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$20,000,000 |
|
| • |
| Expand school-based mental health pilot |
Decision Package |
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Expands funding for school-based mental health to allow licensed and non-licensed mental health professionals to work in schools through public or private partnerships to provide a variety of behavioral health services. |
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FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$15,000,000 |
|
| • |
| Expand housing opportunities for individuals with serious mental illness |
Decision Package |
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Provides funds for supervised residential care for individuals with serious mental illness. |
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FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$8,000,000 |
|
| • |
| Provide additional funding for naloxone |
Decision Package |
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| |
Provides additional funds to increase the supply of naloxone available for distribution to community partners from amounts received in settlement of legal claims against opioid manufacturers and distributors. |
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FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| Nongeneral Fund |
$1,416,398 |
$1,416,398 |
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| • |
| Transfer electronic health records funding to facilities |
Decision Package |
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Transfers funding from agency's central office to state-operated facilities to assist with infrastructure requirements for implementation of electronic health records. This zero-sum transfer has no fiscal impact. |
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FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
($1,023,050) |
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| • |
| Support Off-Duty Officer program |
Decision Package |
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| |
Provides funds for contracts with local law enforcement agencies that agree to utilize off-duty officers to transport and/or maintain custody of an individual awaiting admission to a mental health facility or for whom a bed has not yet been identified. |
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FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$1,000,000 |
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| • |
| Sustain waiver management system interoperability and software upgrades |
Decision Package |
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Provides funding to maintain the Medicaid Waiver Management System (WaMS), including upgrades that will keep the system relevant and efficiently utilized, and to support interoperability with Community Services Boards. WaMS is a portal allowing authorized users to view waiver eligibility options, apply for waivers online, and identify licensed service providers. |
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FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$350,000 |
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| • |
| Fund two cybersecurity positions |
Decision Package |
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| |
Provides funding to add two additional cybersecurity positions in the agency's central office. These additional positions will help support the IT security needs of the state-operated behavioral health and intellectual disability system, including state-operated facilities. |
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FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$261,164 |
| Positions |
0.00 |
2.00 |
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| • |
| Support additional waiver slots with two additional positions |
Decision Package |
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Provides one service authorization position and one provider development position in the second year to support 500 additional ID/DD Medicaid waiver slots. |
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FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$162,878 |
| Nongeneral Fund |
$0 |
$23,268 |
| Positions |
0.00 |
2.00 |
|
| • |
| Provide funds for forensic data tracking and analysis |
Decision Package |
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| |
Provides funding for one position to track and gather data related to restoration of competency court orders in the forensic mental health system, both inpatient and outpatient. |
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FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$97,795 |
| Positions |
0.00 |
1.00 |
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| • |
| Transfer developmental disability waiver rate responsibilities to the Department of Medical Assistance Services |
Decision Package |
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Moves funds to the Department of Medical Assistance Services to support agency responsibilities associated with developmental disability waiver services that will be transferred effective July 1, 2023. |
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| |
FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
($85,000) |
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| • |
| Add language to allow flexible use of mental health pilot program funds |
Decision Package |
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Amends currently earmarked language for alternative inpatient treatment options to allocate $1.5 million for non-inpatient services for individuals at risk of discharge from a private inpatient setting into a state facility setting. Some individuals may not need continued hospitalization but a lack of community based transition services leaves them as likely candidates to admission to state facilities. |
| • |
| Combine earmarks for alternative transportation and alternative custody |
Decision Package |
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Combines funding and earmarks for alternative transportation and alternative custody to provide needed flexibility to target resources toward the specific needs of each community. The combination of these appropriations will ensure that the elements of the emerging system are compatible with one another and support continuous care of the population. The amended language also clarifies that alternative custody and transportation programs can be administered through contracts with private contractors, local law enforcement organizations, Community Services Boards, or other methods as necessary to implement the program. |
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| Amend language to allow dementia funds to be used for discharge and diversion of older adults |
Decision Package |
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Expands language currently earmarked for services for individuals with dementia to allow funds to be expended on all older adults in order to have the greatest impact on state facility census. |
