To: Dale K. Weighill, Governmental Operations Committee Chairperson
From: Sam Olson, Juvenile and Probate Court Administrator
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RE: Approval of an agreement between Genesee County and Genesee Health System, in an amount not to exceed $340,000.00, to provide multi-systemic therapy and anger management/trauma group therapy at Genesee County's Juvenile Justice Center; the term of this agreement is October 1. 2025 through September 30, 2026; the cost of this agreement will be paid from the accounts listed
recommendation
BOARD ACTION REQUESTED:
The Court is requesting approval of contract amendment and extension for Multi-Systemic Therapy and anger management/trauma group therapy with Genesee Health System for the period commencing October 1, 2025 - September 30, 2026, in an amount not to exceed $340,000, to be paid from accounts 2920-663.06-801.004 and 2920-664.00-801.001. These services are part of the approval child care fund annual plan and budget for FY 2025-26.
BACKGROUND:
The Family Division of the Circuit Court has partnered with Genesee Health System since 2004 to provide MST and related mental health services to court-involved youth. The MST team must be licensed to provide the MST services and must participate in annual training and quarterly coaching sessions to maintain fidelity to the evidence-based model. GHS will provide additional group therapy services focused on anger management and trauma-based services, for those youth deemed eligible for which such group therapy treatment(s) may be beneficial.
DISCUSSION:
MST is an evidence-based juvenile delinquency therapy model that helps youth and their families to function responsibly over the long term. MST reduces juvenile delinquency and antisocial behavior by addressing the core causes of such conduct, and addresses the client as a network of systems including family, peers, school, and neighborhood/environment. MST therapists have small caseloads and are on-call 24/7 providing services in the home at times convenient to the family. The average length of treatment is 3-to-6 months. Anger and trauma-based group therapy incorporates an evidenced-based cognitive-based therapy treatment model.
IMPACT ON HUMAN RESOURCES:
None.
IMPACT ON BUDGET:
The cost of this extension/amendment is not to exceed $340,000, to be paid from accounts 2920-663.06-801.004 and 2920-664.00-801.001. These services are part of the approval child care fund annual plan and budget for FY 2025-26.
IMPACT ON FACILITIES:
None.
IMPACT ON TECHNOLOGY:
None.
CONFORMITY TO COUNTY PRIORITIES:
The mental health services provided by Genesee Health System support the county’s priority of fostering healthy, safe, and livable communities.
resolution
TO THE HONORABLE CHAIRPERSON AND MEMBERS OF THE GENESEE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, GENESEE COUNTY, MICHIGAN
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
BE IT RESOLVED, by this Board of County Commissioners of Genesee County, Michigan, that the request by the Juvenile and Probate Court Administrator to authorize an extension and amendment of the professional services contract between Genesee County and Genesee Health System (GHS), whereby GHS will provide multi-systemic therapy and anger management and trauma-based group therapy services for court-involved youth, for the period commencing October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026, at a total cost not to exceed $340,000.00 to be paid from accounts 2920-663.06-801.004 and 2920-664.00-801.001, is approved (a copy of the memorandum request and supporting documentation being on file with the official records of the October 22, 2025 meeting of the Governmental Operations Committee of this Board), and the Chairperson of this Board is authorized to execute the contract extension on behalf of Genesee County.