California Code of Regulations › Title 4 - Business Regulations › Division 10 - California Health Facilities Financing Authority › Chapter 7 - Investment in Mental Health Wellness Grant Program for Children and Youth › Section 7313 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following definitions shall apply wherever the terms are
				  used throughout this Chapter.
(a)
				"Applicant" means an entity that meets the eligibility requirements as further
				described in Section
				7314 for submission of an
				Application and submits an Application.
(b) "Application" means the online request
				for a Grant in the form and format of the Investment in Mental Health Wellness
				Grant Program for Children and Youth Application, Form No. CHFFA 7 CY-01A
				(11/2021), which is hereby incorporated by reference, including all supporting
				information and documents, as further described in Section
				7316.
(c) "Audited Financial Statements" means an
				examination and report of an independent accounting firm on the financial
				activities of a public agency or private nonprofit corporation.
(d) "Authority" means the California Health
				Facilities Financing Authority.
(e)
				"Authority Staff" means employees of the Authority.
(f) "Bay Area Region" means the counties of
				Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San
				Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, and Sonoma.
(g) "Capital Funding" means the Grants the
				Authority may award for all Projects except Mobile Crisis Support Team
				personnel projects.
(h) "Central
				Region" means the counties of Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Fresno,
				Inyo, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Mono, Placer, Sacramento, San Joaquin,
				Stanislaus, Sutter, Tulare, Tuolumne, Yuba, and Yolo.
(i) "Children and Youth" or "Child or Youth"
				means persons 21 years of age and under.
(j) "Counties Applying Jointly" means
				counties that submit an Application together for a Project to deliver crisis
				services.
(k) "Crisis Intervention"
				means crisis intervention as defined in Section
				1810.209 of Title 9 of the
				California Code of Regulations.
(l)
				"Crisis Residential Treatment" means crisis residential treatment services as
				defined in Section
				1810.208 of Title 9 of the
				California Code of Regulations.
(m)
				"Crisis Stabilization" means crisis stabilization as defined in Section
				1810.210 of Title 9 of the
				California Code of Regulations.
(n)
				"Executive Director" means the executive director of the Authority.
(o) "Family Respite Care" means short term
				care provided to Children and Youth receiving mental health services, and
				assistance to their families, to provide temporary relief and sustain family
				health and wellbeing.
(p)
				"Feasible" means the Project has secured all the necessary funding and
				developed a detailed plan with the steps necessary to complete the Project and
				begin providing Program services.
(q) "Final Allocation" means the Grant amount
				approved by the Authority as further described in Section
				7322.
(r) "Funding Round" means the time period
				during which Applications may be submitted for consideration of funding by the
				Authority.
(s) "Going Concern
				Qualification" means an opinion of an independent accounting firm auditor that
				there is substantial doubt regarding the entity's ability to continue into the
				future, generally defined as the following year.
(t) "Grant" means an award of funds to an
				Applicant.
(u) "Grant Agreement"
				means a written agreement between the Authority and a Grantee that consists of
				the terms and conditions of the Grant.
(v) "Grant Award Letter" means the official
				notification that a Grant has been approved by the Authority.
(w) "Grant Period" means the time period from
				the date of Final Allocation to the date set by the Authority for the Grant to
				end.
(x) "Grantee" means a county,
				private nonprofit corporation or public agency that has been awarded or
				designated to receive Grant funds.
(y) "Initial Allocation" means the Grant
				amount the Authority Staff recommends the Authority approve for Final
				Allocation as further described in Section
				7320.
(z) "Lead Grantee" means the county or joint
				powers authority with a county as a member designated on the Application to
				have the primary responsibility for the fiscal management of Grant funds,
				records retention, reporting and all of the other aspects of compliance with
				this Chapter and the Grant Agreement.
(aa) "Mental Health Crisis Services" means
				Crisis Intervention, Crisis Residential Treatment, and Crisis
				Stabilization.
(bb) "Mobile Crisis
				Support Team" means a mobile unit staffed by designated personnel, which may
				include peers, dispatched to assist Children and Youth experiencing mental
				health issues.
(cc) "Personnel
				Funding" means the funds the Authority may award only for Mobile Crisis Support
				Team personnel.
(dd) "Program"
				means Crisis Stabilization, Crisis Residential Treatment, Family Respite Care
				or Mobile Crisis Support Teams provided therein.
(ee) "Project" means startup or expansion of
				Program(s) and acquisition, construction, renovation, equipping or financing of
				capital assets; designed and operated specifically for Children and
				Youth.
(ff) "Ready" means the
				Project has all applicable approvals and/or documents for the Project to
				begin.
(gg) "Related Supports"
				means local service providers who interact with Children and Youth and/or their
				families before, during and after a mental health crisis, including health care
				providers, law enforcement, mental health providers, educational institutions,
				peer support services, social services, triage personnel, and other supports
				within the continuum of care.
(hh)
				"Southern Region" means the counties of Imperial, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange,
				Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and
				Ventura.
(ii) "Subsequent Funding
				Round" means any specified time period after the initial Funding Round during
				which Applications may be submitted to be considered for funding by the
				Authority, subject to the availability of funds.
(jj) "Superior Region" means the counties of
				Butte, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc,
				Nevada, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity.
(kk) "Sustainable" means the Program has
				reasonably foreseeable funding to operate on a continuous basis, or at least
				for the useful life of the Project.
(ll) "Target Population" means the specific
				group(s) of Children and Youth identified as the intended beneficiaries of the
				Program(s) to be funded by a Grant, including Children and Youth eligible for
				Medi-Cal and Children and Youth eligible for county health and mental health
				services.
1. New chapter
				  7 (sections
				  7313-7329) and section filed
				  11-26-2018 as an emergency; operative 11-26-2018 (Register 2018, No. 48). A
				  Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 5-28-2019 or emergency
				  language will be repealed by operation of law on the following
				  day.
2. Certificate of Compliance as to 11-26-2018 order transmitted
				  to OAL 4-22-2019 and filed 5-20-2019 (Register 2019, No. 21).
3.
				  Amendment of subsection (b) filed 9-30-2021 as an emergency; operative
				  9-30-2021 (Register 2021, No. 40). A Certificate of Compliance must be
				  transmitted to OAL by 3-29-2022 or emergency language will be repealed by
				  operation of law on the following day.
4. Certificate of Compliance
				  as to 9-30-2021 order, including further amendment of subsection (b),
				  transmitted to OAL 1-25-2022 and filed 3-9-2022; amendments effective 3-9-2022
				  pursuant to Government Code section
				  11343.4(b)(3)
				  (Register 2022, No. 10).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
					 5848.5
					 and
					 5848.6,
					 Welfare and Institutions Code. Reference: Section
					 5848.5,
					 Welfare and Institutions Code.