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50460000 - Adult Mental Health and Support Services
Data Current as of: 8/10/2018
| Account | Description | FY2018 Spending |
FY2019 GAA |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5046-0000 | Adult Mental Health and Support Services For adult mental health and support services; provided, that the department may allocate not more than $5,000,000 from item 5095-0015 to this item, as necessary, under allocation plans submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means not less than 30 days before any such transfer, for residential and day services for clients formerly receiving care at department facilities; provided, that the department shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means on said distribution of funds per adult and child planning population and the types of services received in each region for fiscal year 2019, not later than February 1, 2019; provided further, that the department shall maintain in fiscal year 2019 the same amount of community-based placements in the previous 3 fiscal years; provided further, that in fiscal year 2019 the department shall expend on clubhouses not less than the amount expended on clubhouses in fiscal year 2018; provided further, that funds shall be expended at not less than the same level as the prior fiscal year for jail diversion programs in municipalities that provide equal matching funds from other public or private sources; provided further, that $3,000,000 shall be expended to expand the jail diversion program to include a crisis intervention team; provided further, that the department shall issue a report not later than December 14, 2018, to the house and senate committees on ways and means regarding the: (a) number of crisis intervention team and jail diversion efforts; (b) amount of funding per grant, delineated by city, town or provider; (c) potential savings achieved; (d) recommendations for expansion; and (e) outcomes measured; provided further, that not less than $250,000 shall be expended on the expansion of low threshold, safe haven housing for mentally ill men and women who have been chronically homeless and are currently living in emergency shelter or on the streets in Boston; provided further, that not less than $250,000 shall be expended on the International Institute of New England for culturally and linguistically appropriate mental health services for immigrants and refugees who have experienced torture and trauma; provided further, that the department shall expend not less than $250,000 for the assisted outpatient treatment program at Eliot Community Human Services, Inc. to treat residents who suffer from serious and persistent mental illness and experience repeated interaction with law enforcement or have a high rate of recurring hospitalization due to said mental illness, either through a voluntary agreement with the resident or by court order mandating that the resident receive the treatment described in this program; provided further, that not later than April 1, 2019, the department, in conjunction with Eliot Community Human Services, Inc., shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means on the assisted outpatient treatment program which shall include baseline and current metrics related to clients served including, but not limited to: (a) behavioral and physical medical diagnosis; (b) status of activities of daily living, including food, shelter and employment; (c) psychiatric hospitalizations; (d) treatment history; and (e) insurance status; provided further, that the report shall include: (i) factors that proved successful in treating pilot participants, including practices used and type of staff functions necessary for success in treating pilot participants; (ii) identification of issues and practices that present barriers to successful treatment; (iii) cost analysis of treatment; (iv) plan for creating a sustainable program based on information from the analysis report; and (v) a proposal for a sustainable course of funding to implement the program; provided further, that not less than $45,000 shall be expended for the community impact unit of the police department of the town of Barnstable in consultation with NAMI Cape Cod, Inc. and the county of Barnstable for a designated emergency site that shall provide shelter, address basic human needs and provide protective oversight and assistance for the high-risk chronically homeless population on Cape Cod; provided further, that not less than $20,000 shall be expended for the county of Barnstable to conduct a study of the Plymouth county outreach project and to determine the viability of replicating the project in the county of Barnstable; and provided further, that not less than $500,000 shall be expended for an elder behavioral health interagency service agreement between the department of mental health and the executive office of elder affairs for adult and community based behavioral health services for adults over the age of 60 |
387,308,340 | 488,735,614 |
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