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California Counties Spend under 10% of Available Funds for Community Program Planning (CPP) processes in FY2021-22

The most recent analysis of Revenue and Expenditures (RER) reports submitted by California counties and areas receiving MHSA Mental Health Funds reflects a common trend in not reporting Community Program Planning (CPP) process expenditures. For Fiscal Year 2021 to 2022, counties reported spending about $9m of the over $120m allowed to be spent on CPP activities. Why are counties required…

Governor’s 2023 MHSA Modernization Act

Governor Newsom has been sharing his vision around modernizing the current Mental Health Services Act. Much of the details were released today. Here’s a summary of key documents for our review: Fact Sheet – Behavioral Health Services Act Reform. June 20, 2023.SB-326 The Behavioral Health Services Act. (2023-2024). June 20, 2023.AB-531 The Behavioral Health Infrastructure Bond Act of 2023. (2023-2024).…

CPP Process Bones – exploring BHAB engagement elements

This post describes some of the elements that could be included in the Community Program Planning (CPP) processes as well as the plan the Behavioral Health Services will deploy to develop the CPP itself. Here are descriptions of some key components of the CPP: Stakeholders and Community:In the MHSA code, outlined in BHAB bylaws in ARTICLE III – Duties and…

Fact Check: More than $100M for Mental Health Is Sitting in the Bank (2017)

by Lisa Halverstadt | November 3, 2017 Statement: “The county of San Diego is holding over $100 million in unspent Mental Health Services Act funds,” state Sen. Ben Hueso said at an Oct. 12 press conference where Democrats and labor leaders called on county supervisors to spend more to combat the region’s homelessness and hepatitis A crises. Determination: True Analysis: Democrats and homeless…

San Diego County BHS Community Program Planning (CPP) plan is older than Twitter.

To the best of our knowledge, the last time San Diego County drafted a Community Program Planning (CPP) process plan and budget, used to describe the ways the Behavioral Health Services (BHS) would meaningfully engage people with serious mental-health issues, their families and other stakeholders, was in 2005, a year before Twitter was born. 1. March 2005 plan and budget…

Meant to help with mental illness, money from tax on millionaires piles up (SDUT 2018)

by Jeff McDonald | San Diego Union Tribune Note: This article originally appeared in October, 2018 – while this blog’s author was serving on the Behavioral Health Advisory Board. Beginning three years earlier, and since this time he has actively, consistently, and as politely as possible been challenging the Behavioral Health Services (BHS) to change their hoarding behavior. To this…

County amasses mental health funds amid need (SDUT 2015)

by Lauren Mascarenhas | San Diego Union Tribune Note: This article originally appeared in August, 2015 – while this blog’s author was serving on the Behavioral Health Advisory Board. Since this time he has actively, consistently, and as politely as possible been challenging the Behavioral Health Services (BHS) to change their hoarding behavior. To this day, they insist because they…

Brief: Two critical BHS elements missing – CPP and Unspent Funds collaboration

This brief describes two critical issues needing to be addressed. One is the fact our BHAB does not have an opportunity to review and approve our county Behavioral Health Service’s Community Program Planning (CPP) processes plan; and the second being the community’s inability to contribute to the decision making process – they would have had we an authentic CPP plan…

What do you think about leaving a projected $200m on the shelf this year?

Why weren’t you part of the decision making process that anticipates leaving $200m idle, instead of most of it being used to address critical crises affecting our county? Rampant homelessness, jails as mental health facilities, rampant opioid and fentanyl overdose rates, and the more recently announced, Racism as a Public Health Crisis. These issues, on top of the apparent shortage…

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