Contract Request Template (Contracts; IGAs; Leases)
Date Submitted: 8-8-2022
Requesting Agency: Sheriff
Division:
Subject Matter Expert Name: Melanie Pitkin
Email Address: melanie.pitkin@denvergov.org <mailto:melanie.pitkin@denvergov.org>
Phone Number:
Item Title & Description:
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A resolution approving a proposed Second Amendatory Agreement between the City and County of Denver and Mile High Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse to provide appropriate screenings, assessments, brief intervention, and linkage to care in the community, based on an individualized treatment and/or transition plan as part of the Recovery in a Secure Environment (RISE) program.
Amends a contract with Mile High Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, doing business as Mile High Behavioral Healthcare, by adding $298,546.80 for a new total of $806,717.85 and one year for a new end date of 6-30-2023 to continue to provide appropriate screenings, assessments, brief intervention, and linkage to care in the community, based on an individualized treatment and/or transition plan as part of the Recovery in a Secure Environment (RISE) program (SHERF-202263682). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 9-12-2022. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 8-10-2022.
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Affected Council District(s) or citywide? Citywide
Contract Control Number: SHERF-202263682
Vendor/Contractor Name (including any “DBA”): Mile High Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, doing business as Mile High Behavioral Healthcare
Type and Scope of services to be performed:
Denver Sheriff Department JBBS SUD program is known as RISE (Recovery in a Secure Environment) and provides treatment therapy for male and female inmates with substance abuse and/or co-occurring disorders who are in custody with the Denver Sheriff Department. In addition, the participants can be either sentenced or unsentenced with a goal of a minimum time to be served of thirty (30) days in the RISE Program. RISE is targeted to serve between 200 and 300 participants annually with continued service in the community. MHBHC staff are adequately trained to deliver EOP/IOP and DUI level II education and treatment services. Staff members are certified addiction counselors, or working towards licensure, and meet the requirements for mental health licensure according to Colorado Division of Behavioral Health and DORA. Staff are trained in mental health issue identification and treatment to be qualified to provide co-occurring substance abuse and mental health services. The goal of the Jail Based Behavioral Health Services (JBBS) Program is to support county Sheriff’s in providing screening, assessment and treatment for offenders with substance use disorders (SUD) and co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders, as well as transition case management services.
MHCB will provide:
• Screenings
• Risk Assessment
• DUI Level II Education groups
• DUI Level II Therapy groups
• Co-Occurring (Substance use and Mental Health groups)
• Moral Reconation Therapy or similar cognitive behavioral intervention group
• Outpatient Substance Abuse Therapy
• Relapse Prevention
• Individual Therapy sessions as needed per assessment
• Case Management Services for transition planning
• Milieu management
• Written transition plans
• AHEAD groups for TBI education
• Housing and Employment assistance
Scope of work:
MHBHC while working with the RISE Program will provide the necessary therapeutic milieu management in cooperation with the parameters set by the Denver Sheriff Department (DSD) and its requirements for maintaining the safety and security of the secured facility (e.g. County Jail). The therapeutic milieu management will not supersede any interventions that are necessary and set forth by DSD uniformed and/or civilian staff. Therapeutic milieu management, including all methods/techniques exercised by MHBHC, staff will work in cooperation with the protocols, methodologies, and required actions that may have to be taken by staff of the Denver Sheriff Department.
MHBHC services that accommodate the RISE participants include group and psychoeducation will be offered 60-120 minutes weekly. Screening and assessment are ongoing and occur daily, lasting between 60 minutes and 120 minutes. Individual counseling occurs as agreed upon by the client and behavioral health specialist with sessions lasting 15 to 60 minutes. Crisis intervention also occurs as needed. Finally, transition planning and vocational services planning occur daily for 30-60 minutes. For clients requiring DUI-specific treatment, 120 minutes are offered on a weekly basis. Milieu management is ongoing and occurs daily.
The housing and employment specialist will be a full-time position to provide client-specific services to locate and prepare for employment and housing support. They will be responsible for these four focus areas: improved life skills, helping clients develop job skills and find jobs, identify and develop relationships with employers willing to hire people exiting the criminal justice system and helping find temporary or permanent housing. Skills such as interviewing, resume building, job searching and life skills will be emphasized.
MHBHC staff and supervisor, including the clinical supervisor if different from direct supervisor, will participate in bi-weekly collaboration meetings with the DSD RISE Program Coordinator to staff cases and address workflow and processes. In addition, MHBHC staff and supervisor will participate in monthly meetings with all RISE staff to address workflow and processes. MHBHC leadership will participate in monthly management meetings with the RISE Program Coordinator, Program Administrator, and Director of Inmate Programs.
Activities and Services
Licensed Substance Use Disorder Treatment Requirements.
a. Eligibility. Per program authorizing legislation, individuals must have a substance use disorder and/or a co-occurring mental health disorder to be eligible to receive services under the JBBS program.
b. Treatment providers must hold a Substance Use Disorder Provider license and be in good standing with the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA).
c. DSD shall implement policies and procedures on how subcontracted treatment provider(s) will manage and maintain clinical records for the individuals served at the outpatient community location. The providers must follow the same protocols and policies for record management for services offered in the jail.
d. Sub-contractor shall provide appropriate screening(s), assessment(a), brief intervention and linkage to care in the community, based on an individualized treatment and/or transition plan.
i. Contractor shall utilize evidence-based screening processes and tools, subject to approval by OBH, to screen for mental health disorders, substance use disorders, trauma, and traumatic brain injuries.
e. Each participant’s treatment / transition plan should incorporate:
i. Summary of the continuum of services offered to individuals based on evidence-based curricula.
ii. Frequency and duration of services offered.
iii. If individual’s treatment will be provided by more than one treatment provider, describe how services are distributed between providers.
iv. Incorporation of criminogenic risk factors in service and transitional case planning as determined from the Level of Supervision Inventory (LSI).
v. The individual’s natural communities and pro-social support.
vi. A plan to transition individuals from jail based services to appropriate behavioral health and other needed community services upon release from incarceration.
vii. Contractor shall provide treatment to individuals in need of services in accordance with the treatment and transition plan described above.
Standards & Requirements
Level of program care. Services offered by the Contractor hereunder shall meet ASAM Level 1 or 2.1 level of care.
Services
MHBHC will provide 2.0 employees (80 hours) weekly at Denver Sheriff Department for the development and programming of the RISE unit for men. Each staff will be committed to the program 40 hours/week, and will be located at the jail at least 32 hours per week.
MHBHC will provide 1.0 employees (40 hours) weekly at Denver Sheriff Department sites for the development and programming of the RISE unit for women. The staff will be committed to the program 40 hours/week, and will be located at the jail at least 32 hours per week.
Location (if applicable): Citywide
WBE/MBE/DBE goals that were applied, if applicable (construction, design, Airport concession contracts): N/A
Are WBE/MBE/DBE goals met (if applicable)? N/A
Is the contract new/a renewal/extension or amendment? Amendment
Was this contractor selected by competitive process or sole source?
Competitive- - RFP 29096Q Jail-based Behavioral Health Services
For New contracts
Term of initial contract:
Options for Renewal:
How many renewals (i.e. up to 2 renewals)?
Term of any renewals (i.e. 1 year each):
Cost of initial contract term:
Cost of any renewals:
Total contract value council is approving if all renewals exercised:
For Amendments/Renewals Extensions:
Is this a change to cost/pricing; length of term; terms unrelated to time or price (List all that apply)? Length and cost
If length changing
What was the length of the term of the original contract?
SHERF-202054980-00; 07/01/2020 - 06/30/2021; Executed 8/5/2020;
SHERF-202159356-01; 07/01/2020 - 06/30/2022; Amended 9/22/2021;
SHERF-202263682-02; 7/1/2020 - 6/30/2023; This Amendment
What is the length of the extension/renewal? One year
What is the revised total term of the contract?
7/1/2020 - 6/30/2023
If cost changing
What was the original value of the entire contract prior to this proposed change? $508,171.00
What is the value of the proposed change? $298,546.80
What is the new/revised total value including change? $806,717.85
If terms changing
Describe the change and the reason for it (i.e. compliance with state law, different way of doing business etc.)