Much like the needs of Californians, there are many different types of professionals who make up the state’s behavioral health workforce. Here’s your break down all clinical and non-clinical behavioral health providers: what they do, credentials needed, and more.
When navigating California behavioral health policy, you cannot escape the alphabet soup of acronyms. This is your essential cheat sheet to mental health and substance use disorder acronyms, organized by treatment models, facilities, state agencies, and legislative initiatives.
How AI is currently being used in mental health care, the potential benefits and risks of those applications, the emerging regulatory landscape, and the policy questions states and health systems are beginning to confront.
What the data show on the relationship between behavioral health and homelessness in California, why they are unable to access housing or care, and what policies and initiatives are needed to solve this crisis.
ACT and FACT are evidence-based models designed for people with the most complex behavioral health needs, and peers are a critical part of their success, especially during key moments of transition. Learn how these models work and why peers are essential to their success.
How alternative destination programs work—and what they mean for California’s behavioral health system When someone in California experiences a behavioral health crisis, help usually comes through a 911 call, where they get sent to an emergency department. […]
The CalAIM Justice-Involved Reentry Initiative allows Medi-Cal services to begin before release from incarceration. Learn what it is, how it works, and why it matters for behavioral health access.
Peer Support Specialists, often called “Peers,” have become a vital element of California’s behavioral health system. Peers use their lived experience, paired with formal training, to help people navigate recovery with empathy and credibility.
Proposition 47 (2014) and Proposition 36 (2024) represent two key shifts in how California approaches incarceration and behavioral health treatment California’s Proposition 47, passed by voters in 2014, changed how California defines and prosecutes non-violent crimes, especially […]
The biggest changes 2024’s Behavioral Health Services Act made to its Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) predecessor The Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), established in 2004 through Proposition 63, created a stable funding source for community-based mental […]