{"id":81843,"date":"2018-05-30T06:14:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T13:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=81843"},"modified":"2018-06-01T18:53:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T01:53:22","slug":"l-a-county-looks-to-incubate-mental-health-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2018\/05\/30\/l-a-county-looks-to-incubate-mental-health-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. County looks to &#8216;incubate&#8217; mental health providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-76354\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mental-health.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"220\" \/>LOS ANGELES &#8211; The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to look at creating an academy to train more nonprofits to be community-based mental health treatment providers.<\/p>\n<p>Supervisor Janice Hahn recommended creating an &#8220;incubation academy&#8221; to better connect small agencies with funding opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Delivering mental health services is done best by organizations that are embedded in the communities they serve, speak the same language as their clients, and can deliver tailored, culturally-competent care,&#8221; Hahn said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, many of these smaller nonprofits have been shut out of contracting and funding opportunities,&#8221; she said, because smaller agencies often lack the staffing and structure to compete for county contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Training could include sessions on revenue and expense management, internal controls and using data to track services and outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>As envisioned by Hahn, the academy might also offer access to public-private funding.<\/p>\n<p>The board directed the county&#8217;s chief executive officer to work with the relevant departments and report back in 60 days with recommendations on selecting participants, designing curriculum and developing grant requirements for a related fund.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to look at creating an academy to train more nonprofits to be community-based mental health treatment providers. Supervisor Janice Hahn recommended creating an &#8220;incubation academy&#8221; to better connect small agencies with funding opportunities. &#8220;Delivering mental health services is done best by organizations that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":76354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}