1.1. Contractor shall provide a twenty-four (24) hour, seven (7) days a week Children and Youth Crisis Stabilization Unit (CYCSU) in the Central Region that is a certified outpatient behavioral health crisis stabilization program that provides Title 9 outpatient diagnostic and treatment services for children and youth under the age of 18, hereafter known as clients. Clients and their families serviced by the CYCSU shall be Medi-Cal beneficiaries, eligible for services through the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) or Periodic Screening Diagnosis Treatment (EPSDT), including individuals who are indigent and/or underserved, and who are residents of San Diego County. Contractor shall provide behavioral health services for severely emotionally and behaviorally disordered children and youth who are experiencing a mental health crisis. The CYCSU shall provide voluntary and WIC 5150 behavioral health services lasting less than 24 hours to persons in a psychiatric emergency due to a behavioral health condition that requires a more timely response than a regularly scheduled visit to prevent decompensation. Behavioral health service interventions include but are not limited to one or more of the following: rapid behavioral health evaluation and psychiatric assessment, crisis intervention, medication, collateral and disposition planning to children under the age of 18. Services shall be culturally and linguistically appropriate to serve individuals of various cultures and languages. The design of the CYCSU is to divert the need for higher levels of care as well as, facilitate admission to inpatient psychiatric care as needed or connect individuals to ongoing care. 1.1.1 Services shall be coordinated and integrated with County of San Diego, HHSA Behavioral Health Services (BHS), HHSA Children, Youth & Family, Fee For Services (FFS) and other behavioral health providers, HHSA Aging & Independence Services, HHSA Self-Sufficiency Services (SSS), Healthy San Diego providers, housing and homeless providers, Aging Network, and other physical health providers, regional collaboratives, community resources and other organizations and groups serving behavioral health clients. 1.1.2 As an organizational provider agency, Contractor shall provide administrative and direct program services to County’s Medi-Cal clients as [defined in Title 9, Division 1, Chapter 11 of the California Code of Regulations]. 1.1.3 For clients under the age of 21, the Contractor shall provide all medically necessary specialty mental health services (SMHS) required pursuant to Section 1396d(r) of Title 42 of the United States Code (Welfare & Inst. Code 14184.402 (d)).
