Transitioned Age Youth (TAY) Services

The County of Fresno, on behalf of the Department of Behavioral Health, is requesting proposals from qualified vendors to provide Full Service Partnership (FSP) mental health services and supports, as well as housing services and supports to Transitional Age Youth (TAY) ages sixteen to twenty-five years. The TAY Program will deliver integrated mental health and supportive housing services twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week, to a minimum of 149 youth and young adults with serious emotional disturbance, serious mental illness, and other conditions. The contract was awarded to Stars Behavioral Health Group, which proposed a detailed structure of services and procedures for providing services, including Team-Based Services, Outreach and Engagement, Culturally Attuned Services, and Individualized Service and Support Plans. • The contract aims to reduce homelessness, out of home placements, emergency room visits, inpatient psychiatric hospitalizations, and/or incarceration for transition age youth and adults with serious mental illness. • The TAY program will be a partnership between the bidder and the Fresno County Department of Behavioral Health (DBH). • The bidder will provide and/or ensure linkages to outreach, personal services coordination, food, clothing, housing, daily living skills, mental and physical health treatment, substance abuse services, supported education and employment, vocational skills assessment and development, transportation, advocacy, family and peer support. • DBH staff will oversee program expenditures, outcomes, reporting, and contract monitoring.