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Behavioral Health
The burden of untreated behavioral health conditions — encompassing mental health and substance use disorders — is both a major public health problem and a delivery system challenge. CHCF works to improve systems of behavioral health care and to focus on integrating mental health, substance use, and physical health services to achieve the best outcomes for Californians with low incomes.


Publication

Learning from COVID-19: How Pandemic-Era Policies for Methadone Prescribing Could Improve Opioid Treatment

April 2022
Leslie Suen, Oanh Nguyen, Kelly Knight
Behavioral Health
Emergency regulations instituted as COVID-19 reached the US allowed patients who may not otherwise have qualified for methadone take-home doses to receive them.
CHCF Blog

Patience, Commitment Help Journalists Capture Harsh Realities of Fentanyl Addiction

April 1, 2022
Lisa Aliferis
Behavioral Health
A conversation with San Francisco Chronicle reporter Trisha Thadani and photojournalist Stephen Lam about how they approached a project that dug deep below the surface of the city's overdose crisis.
Project

Cultivating Outcomes Through Equity in Behavioral Telehealth

March 2022
Behavioral Health, Telehealth
In this 18-month initiative, participants will work to improve their behavioral telehealth practices so that patients will have equitable access to high-quality services that promote resilience and emotional well-being.
CHCF Blog

Biden Lays Out His Health Policy Agenda

March 25, 2022
Alyssa Llamas, Dawn Joyce
Behavioral Health, Health Care Costs
Some of his key items are already underway via administrative actions, while others require legislative action in Congress.
Publication

How California Can Build on CalAIM to Better Integrate Physical and Behavioral Health Care

March 2022
Logan Kelly
Behavioral Health
This analysis reviews CalAIM behavioral health initiatives, looks at programs from other states, and finds additional opportunities for California to advance integration in Medi-Cal.
Publication

Expanding Substance Use Care: Health Plan Teams Up with Seven California Counties

March 2022
Matthew Newman
Behavioral Health
In this regional Drug Medi-Cal Organized Delivery System program, the counties provide financial resources, and Partnership HealthPlan of California administers the program.
Project

Behavioral Health Mobile Crisis Response Services in Medi-Cal

February 2022
Behavioral Health, Medi-Cal
Too often, the first response to people experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis is law enforcement. Communities across California are working to retool their approach to people undergoing behavioral health crises by developing mobile crisis response services. The state's Medi-Cal program is expected to add these services as a new benefit as soon as January 2023.
Publication

Mobile Crisis Teams: A State Planning Guide for Medicaid-Financed Crisis Response Services

February 2022
TAC
Behavioral Health
This paper provides a review of the requirements of the American Rescue Plan Act as it pertains to community-based mobile crisis intervention services. It also highlights state considerations that will support a more robust crisis continuum, including 988 planning.
Publication

2022 Edition — Substance Use in California

January 2022
Allison Valentine, Molly Brassil
Behavioral Health
California's health care system is moving toward acknowledging substance use disorders (SUDs) as chronic illnesses, yet only about 10% of people with an SUD in the last year received treatment. Substance Use in California: Prevalence and Treatment provides an overview of substance use and addiction in the state.
Publication

Federal Policy Recommendations to Support State Implementation of Medicaid-Funded Mobile Crisis Programs

January 2022
TAC
Behavioral Health
In light of new federal funding policies and the upcoming launch of the 988 behavioral health crisis line, this paper identifies important issues in mobile crisis implementation and describes ways that federal agencies could support state and local efforts.
Publication

School Mental Health 101: A Primer for Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans

November 2021
National Center for Youth Law, California Children’s Trust
Behavioral Health
School Mental Health 101: A Primer for Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans introduces managed care plans to California’s vast and complex K–12 education system to help foster partnerships with schools to increase access to school-based and school-linked care for students on Medi-Cal.
CHCF Blog

Raising the Bar for Behavioral Health Care

October 21, 2021
Serene Olin, Lauren Niles
Behavioral Health
The National Committee for Quality Assurance evaluates the current behavioral health quality measurement landscape and shares insights about the needs and challenges facing behavioral health care organizations.
CHCF Blog

Digital Start-Up Is Transforming Mental Health Care in Schools

September 28, 2021
Brian Rinker
Behavioral Health, Health Equity, Investing in Innovation, Medi-Cal
The CHCF Health Innovation Fund has invested in Hazel Health’s vision for critical services for students and young adults.
CHCF Blog

Bridging the Divide Between Mental Health Care and Addiction Treatment

September 21, 2021
Katherine Haynes
Behavioral Health
In a Los Angeles Times op-ed, a CHCF senior program officer shares the heartbreaking story of her son’s death from mental illness and substance use, the result of being caught between two siloed health care systems. Her desire to prevent future tragedies inspires her work promoting integrated care in California.
Publication

Sobering Centers Explained

September 2021
Shannon Smith-Bernardin, Bonar Menninger
Behavioral Health
Sobering centers offer a cost-effective alternative for providing care to people with acute intoxication whose public alcohol or drug use puts themselves or others at risk. New interest in the decades-old approach has been sparked by recent CalAIM (California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal). Learn more about these programs through these two publications: a high-level issue brief and a detailed report.
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