These are recommendations for the Community Engagement Committee to consider as we refine our objectives to improve our collective effectiveness. Current version May 4, 2023Original version May 3, 2023
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The current San Diego County Behavioral Health Services FY2023-26 MHSA Three-Year Plan draft has been released for your review. Everyone has the opportunity to share their feedback, including positive or critical, through a number of in-person and virtual communication vehicles. Here’s the details (click image to download the PDF). Also: A BHABrehab webinar will be held on May 1, 2023…
Behavioral Health Advisory Board (BHAB) Member Training Regrettably, a significant number, if not most, of BHAB board members have not yet received advisory board training provided by the California Behavioral Health Boards and Commissions (CALBHBC) [i]. This training is provided annually in January of each year. CALBHBC could provide such training virtually or locally for under $1k. Local Ethics Training…
It’s great to see the Behavioral Health Services (BHS) launching two get-to-know-the-MHSA training sessions over the next week. Do you feel engaged? I sat on the Behavioral Health Advisory Board (BHAB) for six years (and the Alcohol & Other Drug Advisory Board for several years prior) and even I and many of my peers didn’t feel engaged. It’s a problem.…
The MHSA Community Program Planning (CPP) processes include provisions and funding to train community stakeholders so that they can in turn give more informed feedback. What topics could we cover to get stakeholders up to speed? For starters how about: Types and characteristics of mental disorders (or illness) – conditions that affect your thinking, feeling, mood, and behavior. [NAMI, MedLine,…
Technically, this is a draft report I authored and shared today with the Stakeholder Engagement workgroup. It reflects my perceptions, not that of the workgroup who are seeing it for the first time. All told, my goals include outlining challenges we face here in San Diego County while ensuring an authentic group of representative stakeholders are being meaningfully engaged throughout…
California’s Mental Health Services Accountability and Oversight Commission (MHSOAC) were determined to evaluate the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) requirements relating to the Community Program Planning (CPP) processes. They sought to learn how California counties are meeting their responsibilities to successfully and meaningfully engage their stakeholder community. 2014 MHSOAC Staff Analysis Staff Analysis of Deliverable 5 (summary report)Deliverable 6 (promising…
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…
ITEM 5 – RECEIVE UPDATE ON ADVANCING THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CONTINUUM OF CARE THROUGH REGIONAL COLLABORATION AND INNOVATION My name is Jerry Hall. Although I serve on the Behavioral Health Advisory Board, I am here speaking as an individual. When California enacted the Mental Health Services Act in 2004 through Proposition 63 and more recently in 2019 enhanced via AB1352,…
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…