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…
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May 5, 2023 A letter to Dr. Bergmann, Director, San Diego County, Behavioral Health Services (BHS). I hope this letter finds you well. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak with you after the Behavioral Health Advisory Board (BHAB) meeting last week. Although I no doubt have irritated you and others due to an apparent lack of tact…
Here is the FY2022-23 Behavioral Health Services Community Engagement Report developed by the UC San Diego (UCSD) Health Partnership team. Of Particular Note: Page 26 | Chapter 4 | Community Engagement: Analysis & Results Page 65 | Chapter 5 | Recommendations for Behavioral Health Services and Supports Page 67 | Table 11. Primary Recommendations Identified from Community Feedback Appendix A…
Appreciation goes out to the Behavioral Health Services (BHS) this year for releasing the annual Draft MHSA 3-Year Program and Expenditure Plan for Fiscal Years 2023-24 to 2025-26 in the first week of April. This year the hearing is set for being held at the May 4 BHAB Behavioral Health Advisory Board (BHAB) meeting. This year, we received the plan…
Three weeks ago, I wrote an email shown below to the person that we were told, in BHAB sub-committee and other meetings, would oversee the new community engagement work of the Behavioral Health Services (BHS) department. Three weeks later I still haven’t received a reply. I assume that 0.01% of the reasoning behind this lack of response originates from this…
A letter to the current Behavioral Health Advisory Board (BHAB): In today’s BHAB Director’s Report you will hear about a new $2.3m contract (County Contract #566007 signed in May 2022) about UCSD’s role leading our BHS community engagement efforts. You’ll also hear one element being the development of a Council of Community Partners (CCP), a new group the UCSD team…
This author is presenting a look and analysis into the Community Program Planning (CPP) process. California counties utilizing funding from the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) must also use the CPP to ensure consumer and other stakeholders are meaningfully engaged in the planning and evaluation processes of how their Mental Health Department, here in San Diego County the Behavioral Health…
San Diego County BHS Community Program Planning (CPP) plan is older than Twitter.
Community Program Planning (CPP), Focus & Commentary and Stakeholder Engagement
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…