INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM September 7, 2021
TO: Cynthia Borrego, President, City Council
FROM: Timothy M. Keller, Mayor
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Request For FY22 Substance Use Treatment Voucher Contractors To Exceed $100,000 Funding Aggregate
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The Department of Family & Community Services, Behavioral Health & Wellness Division, is contracting with the following providers (Attachment A) who are eligible to contract through professional and technical services contracts as network substance use treatment providers. The Department has a non-exclusionary, open application process throughout the year, and any new provider who applies and meets established requirements for provision of services may be a network contract provider. Providers must meet performance standards as set forth in the Albuquerque Minimum Standards for Substance use Treatment Services. Network providers include both non-profit and for-profit providers.
Licensed agency clinicians perform comprehensive drug and alcohol assessments on all applicants seeking admission into their program. Contracts with the treatment providers have no dollar amount because we cannot predict how many applicants they will receive. When approved for services, a voucher subsidizing treatment services is issued for the client, and contractors receive payment for the treatment services they provide from the General Fund.
The Department of Family & Community Services has already established units of service and service rates.
We would like to request permission for the substance abuse treatment voucher contractors to exceed the $100,000 funding aggregate, with total expenditures not to exceed available FY-22 amount budgeted for substance abuse treatment vouchers.
The Department of Family & Community Services respectfully forwards this request to the Council for consideration and action.