City Council Agenda Report
Meeting Date: September 17, 2024
From: Freddie Agyin, Director of Health and Environmental Control Department: Health and Environmental Control
Submitted by: Veronica Petrosyan, Deputy Director of Health and Environmental Control
Subject
Addendum No. 1 to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Grant Program Agreement with AltaMed Health Services
Recommendation
Approve and authorize the City Administrator to execute Addendum No. 1 to the SAMHSA Grant Program Agreement with AltaMed Health Services, in substantially the same form as submitted, to incorporate the City's insurance requirements.
Background
In September 2023, the City received a SAMHSA grant award of $1,998,900 for a three-year term for an “On-the-Streets Portable Clinical Care Program with Integrated Behavioral Health and HIV Care.” The grant's purpose is to pilot an approach to comprehensive healthcare for medically underserved minority persons experiencing unsheltered homelessness through the provision of portable clinical care delivered outside and that is focused on the integration of behavioral health, infectious disease services and HIV treatment, and primary care and prevention services.
The On-the-Streets Portable Clinical Care with Integrated Behavioral Health and HIV Care Pilot Project is designed to support the City’s Health Department and the Vernon Health + Wellness Center in a mission to ensure that access to health services are unimpeded and that equitable, respectable, quality offerings are available to all individuals regardless of ethnicity and socioeconomic status. The grant award will allow the City to focus its direct attention on unsheltered individuals within the City and in the surrounding Southeast Los Angeles community.
On July 16, 2024, the City Council approved to execute a SAMHSA Grant Program Agreement with AltaMed Health Services for the pilot project (Attachment 2). Subsequent to the City Council’s approval, staff recognized that the City's insurance requirements were inadvertently omitted from the SAMHSA Grant Program Agreement. Approval of Addendum No. 1 (Attachment 1) will incorporate the insurance requirements as set forth in Exhibit A.
Addendum No. 1 to the SAMHSA Grant Program Agreement has been reviewed and approved as to form by the City Attorney’s Office.
Fiscal Impact
There is no fiscal impact associated with this report.
Attachments
1. Addendum No. 1 to the SAMHSA Grant Program Agreement
2. SAMHSA Grant Program Agreement