Bill > HB76

This bill appropriates $10 million from the general fund to the Health Care Authority for fiscal years 2027 through 2029 to contract with experienced providers for services aimed at developing alternative placements for youth in state custody, moving beyond traditional congregate care settings. The goal is to create more options that can effectively serve and support older youth and those with greater needs, thereby expanding the range of available care. These alternative placements are intended to include a variety of services such as acute psychiatric hospital expansions, residential treatment centers, qualified residential treatment programs, adolescent detoxification facilities, step-down facilities for youth in crisis, mobile response and stabilization teams, treatment foster care homes, day treatment services, and intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization services. Any funds not spent by the end of fiscal year 2029 will be returned to the general fund.

Health and Social Services

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