Porterville Relief Ledger

What this is: Specialty mental-health services for children and adolescents ages 4–15 and transitional-age youth ages 16–18. Services include assessment, therapy, crisis intervention, medication support, rehabilitation and case management, with intensive coordination and home-based support for eligible youth. Screening and clinical assessment determine appropriate services.

Porterville commitments: The agreement names operations at 629 N. Main St., Porterville and a 14-district South County catchment: Porterville Unified; Alta Vista, Burton, Ducor Union, Hope, Hot Springs, Pleasant View, Rockford, Sausalito, Sunnyside Union, Springville Union, Strathmore Union, Terra Bella Union and Woodville elementary districts. These are service-area commitments, not a list of confirmed staffed campuses.

Services are primarily school-based, with homes, clinics and other community settings used as needed and preferred by clients. Regular hours are Monday–Friday, 8 a.m.–5 p.m., with flexible schedules and year-round continuity, including summer, school recesses and holiday periods. The Porterville address is an operations location; walk-in access has not been established.

What the County approved: Agreement 32971 with the Tulare County Superintendent of Schools, approved 5–0 on October 20, 2026, for July 1, 2026–June 30, 2027. Up to $1,979,000 may be paid under the agreement. Payment is based on documented service time at provider- and location-specific rates. The agreement sets an approximate target of 150 unduplicated clients across the whole catchment. This is not guaranteed enrollment or a count of clients already served.

Access / referral — what we still don’t know: Public-facing intake or referral instructions were not clearly identified in the agreement materials reviewed by PRC. This entry will be updated when those details are verified.

What PRC is tracking: Service utilization, documented service time, the catchment-wide client target, year-round continuity, invoices and performance reporting.

Official sources: Approved Agreement 32971 (PDF) — service area, hours and target: PDF pages 5–9; payment terms: pages 34–46. October 20 Board minutes (PDF), pages 2–3, Item 16.

What this is: Tulare County’s Access Line, Crisis Line and Mobile Crisis Response Teams, operated by Kings View. The agreement calls for round-the-clock phone support, screening, referrals and clinically appropriate community crisis response. Porterville residents are included through countywide coverage. The agreement does not identify a dedicated Porterville team or base.

What the County approved: Agreement 32970, approved 5–0 on October 20, 2026, for July 1, 2025–June 30, 2027, with a maximum of $9,416,847. Kings View bills monthly for actual allowable costs, with supporting records. The ceiling is not money already spent.

Access: The agreement identifies 1-800-320-1616 as the County’s 24/7 Access/Crisis Line, with language assistance. Clinical triage determines the appropriate response, including mobile-team dispatch when indicated. A public text/chat endpoint was not identified in the reviewed materials.

Separate from the Navigation Center: This County crisis-services agreement is a different program from the Porterville Navigation Center agreement. Shared funding, staff, budgets or expenditures are not established by these records.

What PRC is tracking: Call and service activity, response times, follow-up, performance reports, supported monthly invoices and actual payments.

Official sources: Approved Agreement 32970 (PDF) — Access/Crisis Lines: PDF pages 5–25; mobile services: pages 26–37; payment terms: pages 109–115. October 20 Board minutes (PDF), pages 2–3, Item 15.

Countywide allocation: On October 27, 2026, the Board approved an estimated FY 2026/27 AB 109 distribution of $29,502,316: $11,346,062.70 for Probation; $11,346,062.70 for the Sheriff; $3,000,000 for inmate healthcare; $859,959 for the Pretrial Court; and $2,950,231.60 to remain in the CCP reserve. These are programmed allocations, not verified expenditures.

GEO agreement: The signed one-year Agreement 32820 runs from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027, with a ceiling of up to $1,708,512 and twelve scheduled monthly amounts of $142,376. The June financing memo says the agreement is supported by Community Corrections Subaccount revenues and included in Probation’s FY 2026/27 requested budget. The reviewed records do not reconcile the contract dollar-for-dollar to the October Probation allocation. Do not add the agreement ceiling to the $29,502,316 distribution. Neither amount establishes payment or spending.

Porterville commitment: The agreement names the Porterville Probation Office as a service location and budgets one case manager and one substance-abuse counselor for Porterville. These are budgeted positions, not proof that either position is filled. The approximately 650 annual participants referenced in the agreement are a countywide estimate, not a Porterville count.

What can be measured: Contract reporting includes service date, location, type and duration, along with measures such as attendance, referrals, employment, sobriety and participant outcomes. Location data may help show what the Porterville portion delivered when reports become available; the agreement does not itself establish local participant counts or results.

What PRC has not recovered publicly in its prior bounded review: July–September 2026 service reports or a quarterly substitute, and a GEO-specific invoice or payment record. A public-record gap does not establish that reports were not submitted, services were absent, or invoices went unpaid.

What PRC is tracking: Whether the Porterville positions are filled, local service and outcome reporting, invoices and payments, and the accounting link between the GEO agreement and the October Probation allocation. The next measurable checkpoint is the first available FY 2026/27 location-specific service report, paired with a contract-linked payment summary if available.

This is a separate Probation/reentry lane from the Kings View crisis-services agreement, TCOE school mental-health services and Porterville Navigation Center funding. The records reviewed establish no missing money, nonperformance, breach, unpaid invoices or absent services.

Official sources: October 27 AB 109 allocation memo (PDF), pp. 1–2; October 27 Board recording, Item 25 action; signed GEO Agreement 32820 (PDF), pp. 1, 4–8 and 12; June 23 GEO financing memo (PDF), pp. 1–2.