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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…

FY2022-23 BHS Community Engagement Report

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…

Progress, and the many elements to consider when creating an MHSA 3-Year Program and Expenditure plan

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…

The illusion of stakeholder engagement. Who are we really serving, the SMI and behavioral health community or those with control over about $900m annually?

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…

County BHS is finally acting on the CPP… with highly limited BHAB participation… diametrically opposed to the intent of the MHSA

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…

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