Sacramento Bee: Few state issues more pressing than criminalization of mental illness
Government too often avoids its responsibilities to severely mentally ill people.
Time for insurers to close mental health care gap for youths
In many industrialized countries, all adolescents showing signs of mental illness receive early, comprehensive psychological care.
Bipartisan coalition unveils 2015-16 mental health bill package
SACRAMENTO, CA – A bipartisan group of legislators, led by Senate Mental Health Caucus Chair Jim Beall and Chair of the Assembly Select Committee on Mental & Behavioral Health, Assemblymember Sebastian Ridley-Thomas, announced today a package of legislation moving forward this year dedicated to improving the lives of Californians suffering from mental illness.
Sacramento Bee: State needs to do better job of assessing impacts of Prop. 63
More than 10 years after Californians voted for a special income tax on millionaires to pay for expanded mental health services, we still don’t know if the program is working the way its sponsors promised it would.
Report: Prop. 63 helping tens of thousands of Californians
A massive tax program former state Sen. Darrell Steinberg pushed to fund mental health services is providing relief to tens of thousands of Californians and decreasing homelessness, hospitalizations and arrests among mentally ill people treated in the programs, according to a report Steinberg released Wednesday.
Mental health investment shows promising results
The Steinberg Institute for Advancing Behavioral Health Policy & Leadership today released the first comprehensive, data-driven study of the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), created by Proposition 63. The evaluation, performed in partnership with the California Behavioral Health Directors Association of California (CBHDA), draws from data reported by counties to state agencies.
