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Joint resolution approving an emergency appropriation of $9,516 for fiscal year 2026, accepting additional grant funding from the Illinois Behavioral Health Workforce Center at the University of Illinois Chicago Solution Focused Brief Therapy Training and Implementation Initiative grant.
Staff Summary
• The Health Department received $9,516 in additional grant funding for the period of June 25, 2026, through June 30, 2026, which has not been previously appropriated because the grant resources were approved after the County’s adoption of the Fiscal Year 2026 budget.
• Six Behavioral Health staff attended a two-day Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Basics Training on June 25 and 26, 2026.
• The training provided staff with strengths-based techniques for helping clients identify solutions by building on their existing abilities, resources, and desired outcomes.
• Grant funds will be budgeted within the Behavioral Health Management Center program to offset staff costs associated with the training.
• The grant will be administered in accordance with the terms and conditions of the award.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center has received additional grant funds for the Illinois Behavioral Health Workforce Center at the University of Illinois Chicago for the Solution Focused Brief Therapy Training and Implementation Initiative; and
WHEREAS, these funds will provide training support for Behavioral Health program operations and activities; and
WHEREAS, the additional funding amount totaling $9,516 for the period of June 25, 2026, through June 30, 2026, which has not been previously appropriated, having been approved after adoption of the Fiscal Year 2026 budget.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that an emergency appropriation in the amount of $9,516 is hereby authorized in the Health Department Fiscal Year 2026 budget as identified on the listing of expense and revenue budget modifications attached hereto and made part hereof; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the revenue budgets as identified on the attached listing be modified as provided by new funding from the following:
Illinois Behavioral Health Workforce Center at the University of Illinois Chicago - Solution Focused Brief Therapy Training and Implementation Initiative Grant $9,516.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on October 13, 2026.