Resolution 010597

..Title Authorizing the City Council Committee on Public Health and Human Services to hold hearings to obtain an update on Community Behavioral Health, its programs, policies and service delivery to eligible Philadelphia residents. ..Body WHEREAS, Community Behavioral Health is a national model created and developed by the City of Philadelphia to ensure that residents with mental health and substance abuse needs receive the most effective treatment in the least restrictive and most cost effective settings; and WHEREAS, Community Behavioral Health became operative on January 1, 1997 through a contractual agreement between the City of Philadelphia and Community Behavioral Health for the delivery of the State of Pennsylvania's HealthChoices Program; and WHEREAS, Community Behavioral Health assumed the duties and responsibilities to plan and coordinate behavioral health services for eligible residents; and WHEREAS, Community Behavioral Health was also charged with engaging third parties, including community providers, to offer and deliver the appropriate mental health and substance abuse services; and WHEREAS, Community Behavioral Health also assumed an oversight role to monitor and an evaluate the effectiveness of the third party providers; and WHEREAS, Community Behavioral Health has completed five years of planning and coordination, supervision and funding, of the behavioral health services to Philadelphia's eligible residents; now therefore RESOLVED, THAT THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, Authorize the Committee on Public Health and Human Services to gather an update on the programs, policies and finances of Community Behavioral Health. ..End