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Posts tagged as “BHAB”

My Public Comment (extended version)

I gave a summary of the longer public comment below urging the Executive Board to: My longer comment is as follows. Thank you Executive Board Members, Dr. Bergmann, Staff and any other guests For nearly a decade you have heard me either on the Alcohol and Other Drug Advisory Board and the Behavioral Health Advisory Board, implore these boards to…

BHAB Planning for Calendar Year 2023

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…

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…

AB 1352 Community Mental Health Services, Mental Health Boards

AB 1352 Assembly Bill No. 1352 CHAPTER 460 Five votes: 2 in committee, 2 in Assembly, 1 in senate = 225 Yea and 0 Nay An act to amend Sections 5604, 5604.2, 5604.3, 5604.5, and 5848 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health. [Approved by Governor October 2, 2019. Filed with Secretary of State October 2, 2019.]…

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