Full Service Partnership (FSP) Children and Youth Service Needs Glossary

Per Mental Health Service Act legislation, a Child is a person between ages 0 and 15. 

The Data Collection Reporting (DCR) System is a client-level data system in which the Department of Health Care Services(DHCS) maintains County-submitted information about Full Service Partnership (FSP) clients. The DCR, together with DHCS’s Client & Service Information (CSI) System, is the data source for the MHSOAC Full Service Partnership Outcomes Dashboard. Data is provided monthly by County mental health programs (MHPs) and in these dashboards are summarized at the state level. The MHSOAC receives twice-annual updates of the DCR and CSI data from DHCS, which then are reflected in updates to the dashboard.

If a partner indicated on their Partnership Assessment Form (PAF) one or more physical health related emergency interventions during the last 12 months, then this indicator is positive.

Program planning and the reporting of Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) expenditures are based on the State fiscal year, which begins July 1st and ends June 30 of the following calendar year. For example, the fiscal year 2015–16 began July 1, 2015, and ended on June 30, 2016.

This is a program category within Community Services and Supports (CSS). The FSP program philosophy is to do “whatever it takes” to help individuals achieve their goals, including recovery, by providing a full spectrum of community services and supports, as determined collaboratively with the partner-client. The services provided may include, but are not limited to, mental health treatment, housing, medical care, vocational training, and crisis support.

If a partner indicated on their Partnership Assessment Form (PAF) that current, yesterday, or in the past 12-months their living arrangement was in an emergency shelter or were homeless, then this indicator is positive.

Indicators are identified based on the partners’ responses to specific question(s) in the Partner Assessment Form (PAF). From those indicators, we have a glimpse of the challenges and needs that partners are experiencing before entering the FSP. A better understanding of those indicators could help county design program to better serve partners.

If a partner indicated on their Partnership Assessment Form (PAF) that current, yesterday, or in the past 12-months their living arrangement was in a psychiatric hospital, state psychiatric hospital, psychiatric nursing facility, or long-term institutional care for mental disease, then this indicator is positive.

If a partner indicated on their Partnership Assessment Form (PAF)  that current, yesterday, or in the past 12-months their living arrangement was in juvenile hall/camp, division of juvenile justice, jail, or prison; or in the last 12 months he/she was arrested, on parole, or probation; or he/she had ever been in prison, then this indicator is positive.

If a partner indicated on their Partnership Assessment Form (PAF) that current, yesterday, or in the past 12-months their living arrangement was in a foster home, group home, congregate placement, community treatment, residential treatment, or community care, then this indicator is positive.

The State adopted the term, “partner” to refer to the client participating in a Full Service Partnership (FSP) program. Unique to FSP programs are a low staff to client ratio, a 24/7 crisis availability and a team approach that is a partnership between mental health staff and consumers. Persons should only be in one partnership at a time, but can be in more than one partnership over a longer period of time (for example if a person moves to a new county we might see them also move to a different partnership in the new county).

Relationship between the client or partner and the Full Services Partnership program in which they are enrolled. Unique to FSP programs are a low staff to client ratio, a 24/7 crisis availability and a team approach that is a partnership between mental health staff and consumers.

The Partnership Assessment Form (PAF) is the initial intake data collected when a client is enrolled into a Full Service Partnership (FSP). Data is collected on partners’ residential status, education, employment, sources of financial support, legal issues, emergency information, health information, and substance use status.

Protected health information is individually identifiable information relating to the past, present, or future health status of individuals including, diagnoses, treatment information, medical test results, prescription information, medical identification numbers, and demographic information such as birth dates, gender, ethnicity, and contact and emergency contact information. Source: HIPAA Journal.

The HIPAA Privacy Rule establishes national standards to protect individuals’ medical records and other personal health information and applies to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and those health care providers that conduct certain health care transactions electronically.

State and federal law (i.e., HIPAA) require various entities to protect the private information of individuals receiving physical or mental health care. In presenting information about clients and client outcomes in the Transparency Suite, the MHSOAC has aggregated or suppressed display of information about small groups of individuals to minimize the likelihood that any individual can be reidentified from displayed information.  

Grouped Race/Ethnicity categories (African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian/Pacific Islander, Latino/a, Multiracial, Other, White/Caucasian, Unknown) based on the detailed race information reported in the DHCS Client Services Information System. Categories are chosen based on a combination of DHCS reporting groups and categories that allow MHSOAC to minimize data suppression at the county level. 

If a partner indicated on their Partnership Assessment Form (PAF) that currently or in the past 12-months their attendance level was infrequent or never, had been suspended or expelled from school, or was not in school and their highest grade level was below 12, then this indicator is positive. 

If a partner indicated on their Partnership Assessment Form (PAF) that currently or in the past 12-months their school grades were below average or poor, then this indicator is positive. 

If a partner indicated on their Partnership Assessment Form (PAF) that they were currently receiving special education, then this indicator is positive.

If a partner indicated on their Partnership Assessment Form (PAF), or their partnership service coordinator opinion was, that they were currently receiving/needed substance abuse services or have a co-occurring mental illness with substance abuse problem, then this indicator is positive.

Per Mental Health Services Act legislation, Transition Aged Youth (TAY) are defined as any person between the ages of 16 and 25.