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HomeMy WebLinkAboutReg 2023-03-06 Item 5A - Update - King County Crisis Care Centers Levyr I King County Crisis Care Centers Levy ir L41 King County KELLY RIDER (She/Her) Chief of Staff King County Department of Community and Human Services Mental Health Behavioral & Health Substance Use Disorder People Recover. 3 Urgent Problems We've Solved this for Broken Bones... No walk-in Behavioral Health "Urgent Care" One Third! Losing Mental Health Residential Capacity It takes People to Treat People Unsustainable Workforce N N Core Crisis System Elements: What do we have now? Someone to Talk To Someone to Respond 988, Mobile Crisis Teams, Regional Co -Responders, Crisis Line Outreach, Peers Someplace to Go Be 'Be Brought Anyone Anywhere Any Time King County's proposed Crisis Care Centers Levy i 0 Create Urm 0 five new regional 0 crisis care centers- Distributed geographically across the county, the centers will provide walk-in access and the potential forshort-term stays to help people stabilize, depending on needs, with one center specifically serving youth. One 46 -bed crisis center for 2.3 million people in our county 0 Preserve and restore the dramatic loss of residential .41 treatment beds: I I I In 2018, 355 beds providing community-based residential care for people with mental health residential needs existed in King County. Today, only 244 of these beds are available. Loss of 1 in 3 of our residential treatment beds in recent years As of July 2022, people waited an average of 44 days fora mental health residential bed. 0 Grow the behavioral health workforce pipeline: The proposal will create career pathways through apprenticeship programming and access to higher education, credentialing, training. and wrap-around supports. It will also invest in equitable wages for the workforce at crisis care centers. Historic labor shortages A 2021 King County survey of member organizations of the King County Integrated Care Network found that job vacancies at4 community behavioral health agencies were at leastd 'r' '; double what =gthey were d • in 2019. s '1 4h rr Paramount Purpose: A Regional Network of 5 CCCs §1.0 defines 4 Crisis Response Zones • Each Crisis Response Zone hosts at least one CCC • At least one CCC 1111 specializes in serving children The purpose of Crisis Response Zones (CRZs) is to promote localized access geographic distribution of CCCs. CRZs do not restrict who can access which CCC. ET_ Proposed Crisis Response Zones North Zone East Zone South Zone Paramount Purpose• What is a CCC? see §1.A Same Day Access to multiple types of crisis stabilization services, which shall include: 24/7 Walk- In/Drop-Off BH Urgent Care Clinic 14 -Day Crisis Stabilization: 16 beds for short-term care 23 -Hour Observation Unit Onsite access to a DCIS (Designated Crisis Responder) No Wrong Door: "Shall endeavor to accept at least for initial screening and triage any person..." Single Facility or Grouped Facilities that are adjacent or with transportation provided Staff must be multidisciplinary and include peers. May incorporate compatible pre- existing facilities N 0) Paramount Purpose: Who Will Site & Operate CCC's? • Crisis Care Centers would be operated by provider agencies under contract to DCHS's Behavioral Health and Recovery Division. • Crisis Care Centers would be sited by providers proposing sites w/ host jurisdiction support through an RFP or a similar procurement process. The proposed Ballot Measure Ordinance is silent on this issue other than requiring an Implementation Plan. CCC operations/siting would be governed by the Implementation Plan. Except for election cost and up to $1M in initial planning, Levy proceeds may not be spent until the Implementation Plan is enacted. Supporting Purpose One: Restore Mental Health Residential Capacity King County lost one-third of its mental � ealth residential beds since 2018. It was almost one-half. Supporting Purpose One would reinforce remaining facilities to prevent further loss and • build back at least 111 beds. New facilities would be limited to 16 beds, requiring at least 7 new facilities. Why 16 beds? Supporting Purpose One: Restore Mental Health Residential Capacity What is Mental Health Residential? • A recovery -oriented place to live • Residential treatment • Case management & practice for basic life skills • Supports for individual treatment & group sessions • A setting that builds community within community Supporting Purpose Two: Workforce Provider staff 2021. acancies double between 2019 and • Invest in systemwide supports to increase the sustainability and representativeness of the entire behavioral health workforce • Make specific investments at CCCs to support robust, sustainable, and representative staffing W Projected Costs for a 14.5 cent, 9 -year Countywide Levy Auburn 2022 Median Assessed Value $433,000 Estimated 2024 Median Assessed Value $522,544 Estimated 2024 Annual Payment $75.77 Estimated 2024 Monthly Payment $6.31 Kent $467,000 $563,576 $81.72 $6.81 Renton $534,000 $644,' 21_ 193.44 7 7Q Countywide Median $694,000 $837,519 $121.44 $10.12 Deattle 60,000 $917,16 $132.99 $11.08 Bothell $758,000 $914,754 $132.64 $11.05 Redmond $1,005,000 $1,212,834 $175.86 $14.66 Bellevue $1,107,000 $1,335,928 $193.71 $16.14 Proposed at $0.145 per $1,000 of Assessed Value (AV) • Assessed values often differ from sale prices • Levy period would begin in 2024 This projection estimates 2024 median AV by applying a 20.68% growth factor to 2022 median AV. The Assessor's 2022 Median AV by city is available online. Timeline for Crisis Care Centers Levy Development Problem Identification & Initial Concept Development Early to Mid '22 W. CCC Proposal Development & Finalization AUG -SEP '22 Coalition Forms to Develop a Policy Proposal V JUL-AUG '22 Council & RPC Consider CCC Ballot Measure Ordinance OCT `22 -JAN '23 Coalition CCC Levy Announcement & I Exec. Transmits Proposed Ballot Measure SEP '2 Potential Voter Consideration in April 2023 Election LAPR `23 L Latest Potential Enactment of CCC Ballot Measure Ordinance V Early FEB '23 If Approved: Council & RPC Consider CCC Implementation Plan If Approved: Executive Implementation Plan Development APR -FALL '23