Board of County Supervisors - Joint Meeting with the Prince William County School Board - Dec 17, 2024

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What opening remarks and agenda were set at the start of the joint Board of Supervisors and School Board meeting?

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Deshundra Jefferson 0:05

don't have a gavel with me, so I'm just going to go ahead and get this meeting started. It is 6.01. Thank you, everyone, for joining us, and thank you to the school board for coming. You know, unfortunately, our accommodations are not as luxurious as

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the

Deshundra Jefferson 0:19

Kelly Leadership Building, but we have really good food. I hope that makes sense. Yes, thank you. So there are a number of things to discuss. Before we get started, I wanted to see if you had anything. You know, I just thank you for having us here this evening. We're excited to be here. It's always great to work with you all. And we did not have one of these last year, so this is the first one in two years. So I look forward to our discussion this evening. Thank you. All right, so from my point of view, with the Board of Supervisors, one of the things that, you know, we have a lot of growth coming to the county, and that's certainly one of the things that I want to discuss. You know, but the way we did this whole thing, I guess we'll start with Prince William County.

Deshundra Jefferson 1:05

You know, we'll start talking about, I guess, the first thing up is the CRC briefing. You know, Mr. Shorten, that's nothing.

Chris Shorter 1:12

Absolutely. Thank you very much, Madam Chair, Chair Lateef, board members, with the agenda we wanted to cover three items that we heard from our board that we wanted to update on this evening starting with the CRC this is really just an update on what we've been first to talk a bit about the waiver process and what we've been going through and then to give an update on where we are with EMAS so if Lisa maybe serving as our Director of Social Services. And Lisa will give an update, community services, and will give an update on the CRC. Lisa, I'll turn it to you. Thank

Lisa (Last name not provided) 2:05

you, Chris, very much. Thank you all. It's a pleasure to be here and to talk about the CRC this evening. just a brief overview because it started off very well and i really want to remember that as i get into the ways of what that means but you'll recall the conversation started about the vision

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did you move to the middle and try to speak up

Lisa (Last name not provided) 2:30

conversations began in july of 2021 around the vision for crisis receiving center and the full vision was for 1623 on our observation units for adults and 16 crisis residential state stabilization beds for adults in

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1616. And

Lisa (Last name not provided) 2:54

in 2022, July, the board gave us our first 2.7 million towards this And we were moving ahead with the adult, as we couldn't afford both. And then we awarded the contract to an experienced vendor with a particular model that we're doing that has never been done in Virginia before. We're operating the CRC, and that's Connections. And we awarded the contract in November of 2022. DBA, CBS, the state came to us and said, if we give you some funding, can you time around the same time that you do the adult. And so by that December, we had funding to move forward for part getting closer to our vision, which is very short time frame. You may remember that in May, the county purchased the Worth Avenue building, and we were moving faster than we had anticipated until June of 2024.

Lisa (Last name not provided) 4:01

At that time, past June, the Department of Behavioral Health, the state agency, reached out to us and asked us to complete a form for them to determine whether we would be considered an institute of mental disease. And an IMD is out of a policy, a federal policy, that was established through the Social Security act around 1968 really to prevent institutionalization because around the time of deinstitutionalization and so as not to increase or bring back a lot of beds in an institution for those with primary mental health disorders this act was included it has some exceptions to it but and basically any facility that has more than 16 beds is deemed an IMD. And as so, we cannot bill Medicaid. Now, in our vision for the CRC, not only did we envision the crisis programs, but we also were co-locating some of our community services programs to be able to support individuals to prevent them from going into crisis or to help them once they were coming out of crisis.