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From MHSA to BHSA: How California’s Behavioral Health Policy Priorities Are Changing
California’s new Behavioral Health Services Act changes how counties allocate mental health funding. These publications highlight the key differences from the previous Mental Health Services Act.
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What Is a Clubhouse for People with Serious Mental Illness?
This fact sheet explains how Clubhouses are an evidence-based model of community care designed to support the recovery of people living with serious mental illness.
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In San Diego, a Haven for East African Refugees Builds a Healthier Community
UWEAST supports East African refugees through culturally competent mental health care, youth mentorship, and a trusted space for healing.
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Measures That Matter
Behavioral health systems often track what’s easy to measure, not what matters most to people with serious mental illness. Aligning metrics with real priorities has the power to transform care.
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Listening to Californians with Complex Needs: Behavioral Health
This fact sheet draws from a major research project and examines the experiences of Californians with behavioral health conditions. Participants shared the need for integrated care with fewer eligibility requirements and the importance of care managers with lived experience, especially.
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Listening to Californians with Complex Needs
Learn about the first-hand experiences of Californians with complex health and social needs as they seek care. Read the full report and its fact sheets from EVITARUS.
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This Federal Experiment Is Pouring Money into Mental Hospitals. Will It Work?
California and other states are joining a federal pilot project that’s funneling new funding into institutional care for people with serious mental illness.
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California Counties, Private Agencies Aim for ‘Behavioral Health Transformation’ Enabled by Prop 1
Proposition 1 increased funding opportunities for housing interventions and other services.
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What Is Lay Counseling?
This fact sheet shows how lay counselors can bridge the mental health workforce gap by providing evidence-based support comparable to that offered by licensed therapists.
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Strengthening the Behavioral Health Workforce: Evaluation of the Lay Counselor Academy
An evaluation of the Lay Counselor Academy finds the program effectively upskills health and social workers to provide mental health support. The program could play a pivotal role in addressing immediate and long-term shortages in the mental health workforce.
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Wider Circle Getting Big Results from Its Strategy to Ease Loneliness
It may seem like a social club, but Wider Circle is actually a targeted intervention to improve members’ mental and physical health.
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Counties Embrace New Approach to Getting Therapist Trainees Licensed
Motivo Health increases access to clinical supervision, smoothing the pathway to California licensure for needed mental health providers.
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Motivo Health: Helping Unclog California’s Behavioral Health Worker Pipeline
An innovative startup removes obstacles that have slowed the licensing of sorely needed therapists. Listen to the Making Waves in Health Tech podcast to hear the full story.
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Sanarai: Health Tech Delivers Culturally Resonant Care
The company offers Spanish-speakers easy, affordable, and culturally concordant therapy through telehealth. Listen to the Making Waves in Health Tech podcast to learn more.
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Expanding Access to Mental Health Care for Seriously Ill Patients
A San Ysidro Health program is reimagining mental health and substance use disorder treatment as part of a federally supported effort to make behavioral health care better for Medi-Cal enrollees.
