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…
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The following are documents and notes from the Building a Better BHAB (BBB) Workgroup formed and meeting during 2019-20 which this author, as chair of the workgroup, documented. These documents effectively outline how the BHAB could be reformed and refocused on their state-mandated duties. Not many of these recommendations were adopted unfortunately. My hope is that these will be used…
August 5, 2021 Public Comment submitted by Jerry Hall, former BHAB Member (read by staff into record). Good afternoon Board Chair Judith, Board Chair Fletcher, Members, Staff and Guests. On July 21st I emailed a proposal to several stakeholders in the hope that it would spur the BHAB and BHS to collaborate on creating an updated process for key BHAB…
This is post 3 of 4 in the series “BHS Planning & Budgeting Cycle” Let’s Collaborate! Improving BHS Planning, Outcome, & Feedback Cycles The Current BHS Planning Process & Timeline Cycle is Broken If the BHS & BHAB Planning Calendar Went to Rehab it Could Look Like This BHAB and BHS Planning & Engagement Processes – An Update Here is…
This is post 2 of 4 in the series “BHS Planning & Budgeting Cycle” Let’s Collaborate! Improving BHS Planning, Outcome, & Feedback Cycles The Current BHS Planning Process & Timeline Cycle is Broken If the BHS & BHAB Planning Calendar Went to Rehab it Could Look Like This BHAB and BHS Planning & Engagement Processes – An Update The following…
This is post 1 of 4 in the series “BHS Planning & Budgeting Cycle” Let’s Collaborate! Improving BHS Planning, Outcome, & Feedback Cycles The Current BHS Planning Process & Timeline Cycle is Broken If the BHS & BHAB Planning Calendar Went to Rehab it Could Look Like This BHAB and BHS Planning & Engagement Processes – An Update This report…
Following the guidance of the May 26, 2020 San Diego County MHSA Issue Resolution Process (p217-218) I filed the following complaint as a consumer of BHS services: September 2, 2020 TO: Dr. Luke Bergmann FR: Jerry Hall, BHS Services Consumer RE: MHSA Issue Resolution Complaint I am writing this complaint as an individual consumer of San Diego County Behavioral Health…
Oddly enough, San Diego County Behavioral Health Services (BHS) delayed creating it’s MHSA 3-Year Plan and released it to the public last night. That document is here. If you take off to read it I understand but, check back here to see how you can help. One concern is the San Diego County Board of Supervisors already had their annual…
Why was the MHSA Annual Update (Plan), released during, not before, the applicable year… and released without the public knowing about it?
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UPDATE: A September 22nd version of the plan including active hyperlinks was updated on the county website sometime thereafter, almost a full week after I notified the BHS, and is available for your review. UPDATE 10/5/2022: My original letter to the BHS was answered by the MHSA liaison which I appreciated. It turns out I was mistaken saying there was…