The South County Homeless Project (SCHP) emergency shelter provides 24 shelter beds for men and women with serious mental illness currently experiencing homelessness. The shelter operates out of a county-owned property in Hayward and has not received any significant maintenance or upgrade work since it was first used for this purpose in 1989. Scope of work will include assessment of the property and rehabilitation of key areas including the Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems, electrical, plumbing, fire safety and prevention systems, and other areas.

• The Crisis Response program will serve individuals and families impacted by a mental health crisis.
• The Geriatric Assessment & Response Team (GART) will provide mobile integrated health services to older adults with mental health issues in a variety of settings.
• The Co-Occurring Disorder consultation effort will provide mental health consultation for AOD providers and their consumers.
• The Family & Education Resource Center (FERC) will provide services to consumers and family members.

The Wellness Center is intended to serve a diverse group of consumers and families including underserved ethnic communities with a focus on serving individuals and families impacted by serious mental illness or serious emotional disturbances. The following MHSA programs may be co-located at the Wellness Center:

• Wellness & Recovery Team
• Recovery Resource and Education Center,
• CHOICES,
• Stigma and Discrimination Reduction Campaign,
• Consumer-operated program offices, etc.

Purchase, installation and maintenance of a new Behavioral Health Management Information System, to include: billing, managed care, e-prescribing functions, data interoperability and functions as needed to support clinical and fiscal operations of ACBH. Additional expenditures for the necessary support staff during the implementation process, and other projects that provide access to consumers and family members to their personal health information and other wellness and recovery supports. In addition, ACBH developed and has implemented Yellowfin (a ACBH dashboard of utilization data) to facilitate client data collection and outcome evaluation.

Implementation of electronic health records based on technology that supports interoperability with other systems to ensure a dynamic data exchange with other entities involved in the care of consumers. Given the vast network of ACBH service providers in Alameda County, ACBH’ seeks to facilitate the use of an electronic health record by both county-owned and operated programs, as well as the contracted provider community. This will allow the most efficient data exchange and coordination of services. In cases where contracting providers already have an electronic health record system in place, standardized data exchange will facilitate the transmittal of data from one system to another to ensure a seamless integration of client data.

Development of electronic prescription functionality that will be available for consumers in Alameda County. E-prescribing improves quality of care and reduces medication errors, including the possibility of a misread prescription by a dispensing pharmacist. E-prescribing applications alert doctors to potential drug-to-drug/food interactions and drug allergies, provide pregnancy and lactation alerts, provide peer medication dosing patterns and provide online access to clinical references.