Mental Health Services Act

• Read the full text of the Mental Health Services Act in English or en Español.
• Integrated Plan Framework
  • Message from the Director
  • Integrated Plan Framework Finalized
• MHSA Expenditure Report FY 2006-2007 - Addendum MHSA Expenditure Report FY 2006-2007 - A Report to the Legislature
• MHSA Expenditure Report FY 2005-2006 - Addendum
• MHSA Expenditure Report FY 2005-2006 - A Report to the Legislature
• ACCMHA Position Paper on the Mental Health Services Act
• ACCMHA Position Paper on the Mental Health Services Act -- Executive Summary
• A Wish List of Broken Rules
• California Association of Social Rehabilitation Agencies - Comments on CSS Program and Expenditure Requirements
• California Network of Mental Health Clients - Position Paper /li>
• Corporation for Supportive Housing - Written Stakeholder Meeting Input
• From Fail-First to Help-First; Proposition 63 Transforms California Mental Health System
• Implementing Prop. 63 with Vision and Purpose
• Key Issues for Community Mental Health Agencies and First Steps for DMH Implementation
• Mental Health Services Act Housing Toolkit
• NAMI California Position Paper on Implementation of the MHSA
• \ SEIU Position Paper on the Mental Health Services Act
• SEIU Position Paper on the Mental Health Services Act - Executive Summary
• United Advocates for Children of California - Position Paper

General Mental Health

• California Mental Health Planning Council - Master Plan
• California State Library - California Family Impact Seminar (CAFIS) Reports
• California State Library - California Research Bureau Reports
• Characteristics of the Uninsured: A View from the States, May 2004
• EMQ Wraparound Services
• Healthy People 2010 Objectives - Mental Health Section
• President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Report
• SQIC/IOM Aims For the Public Mental Health System
• SQIC/IOM Discussion Work Group Progress Report - February 2004
• SQIC/IOM Proposed Recommendations
• SQIC IOM Quality Chasm Principles and Rules for Behavioral Health
• The Campaign for Mental Health Reform

Adults

• Best Practices Training Grid - May 11, 2005 (Version 1.3)
• Blueprint for Change: Ending Chronic Homelessness for Persons with Serious Mental Illnesses and/or Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders - 2003
• Effectiveness of Integrated Services for Homeless Adults with Serious Mental Illness, A Report to the Legislature - May 2003
• National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse - Directory of Consumer-Driven Services
• Proposition 63 Begins: The Mental Health Services Act Implementation Toolbox by Mark Ragins, MD
• Recovery Culture Readiness Inventory
• Welfare and Institutions Code §§ 5806 - 5814.5

Older Adult

• ASOC/OASOC Literature Review Template - CMHDA
• ASOC/OASOC Transitional Adults Subcommittee Fact Shee - CMHDA
• Assessment form (North Carolina): Mental Health Services for Older and Disabled Adults
• From Adult to Older Adult, Discovering the Transition - CMHDA
• Identifying High Risk Transitional Adults in the County Mental Health Systems
• MHSA and Older Californians: Geriatric Leaders Identify Essential Education and Training Needs - CGEC
• Older Adult System of Care Framework - CMHDA
• Older Americans Act Requirements for the Local Planning Process
• Position Paper on Building an Older Adult System of Care - CMHDA
• System Analysis of the Older Adult System of Care Demonstration Project - FY 2000-2003

Children/Youth

• Assets Coming Together (ACT) for Youth website for promising practices related to youth development and youth engagement
• California Department of Social Services (CDSS) ACIN 1-28-99 SB 163 Wraparound Services Pilot
• Child Welfare Services Redesign: The Future of Child Welfare Services - Final Report, September 2003
• Children's Mental health Benchmarking Project Report
• Children's System of Care Framework - CMHDA
• Connecticut Community KidCare Statutes
• Focal Point: Research, Policy, and Practice in Children's Mental Health - Resilience and Recovery
• Forum Focus on Youth Policy
• Foster Youth Proposals To Improve Mental Health Services: The Consumer Perspective, June 2000, California Youth Connection.
• From Promise to Practice: Mental Health Models that Work for Children and Youth
• Guide to the Mental Health Services Act for Children and Youth - UACC (English Version)
• Guía familiar para niños y jóvenes: La Ley de Servicios de Salud Mental (En Español)
• Making Children's Mental Health Services Successful: Crafting Logic Models for Systems of Care: Ideas Into Action, 2003
• Refugee Children Traumatized by War and Violence: The Challenge offered to the Service Delivery System. Georgetown University Child Development Center.
• Report of the Surgeon General's Conference on Children's Mental Health: A National Action Agenda. September 18 - 19, 2000
• Statewide Family Networks Technical Assistance Center
• United Advocates for Children of California
• Welfare and Institutions Code §§ 5850 - 5883

Transition Age Youth

• Childhood and Adolescent Predictors of Major Depression in the Transition to Adulthood
• Transition Age Youth Resource Guide: Services, Promising Practices & Implementation Guidelines for Caifornia's Mental Health Services
• Voices of Youth in Transition
• Youth Development and Crime Prevention Initiative Annual Report

Co-Occurring Disorders

• Effects of gender and diagnosis on addiction history, treatment utilization, and psychological functioning among a dually-diagnosed sample in drug treatment. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, SARC Supplement 1, 169-179.
• Indexed Bibliography of Articles Published in Professional Chemical Dependency Journals

Cultural Competency

• Acta de Servicios de Salud Mental" - Full text of the Mental Health Services Act in Spanish
• Assuring Cultural Competence in Health Care: Recommendations for National Standards and an Outcomes-Focused Research Agenda
• Cultural Competence Standards In Managed Care Mental Health Services: Four Underserved/Underrepresented Racial/Ethnic Groups.
• Cultural Competency Methodological and Data Strategies to Assess the Quality of Service in Mental Health Systems of Care" Carol Siegel, G. Haugland, E. Davis. Center for the Study of Issues in Public Mental Health.
• Gender Matters in Mental Health: An Initial Examination of Gender-Based Data, Publication of the CA Women's Mental Health Policy Council February 2004.
• Georgetown Cultural Competency Organizational Assessment Tools
• Guidance to Federal Financial Assistance Recipients Regarding Title VI Prohibition Against National Origin Discrimination Affecting Limited English Proficient Persons.
• Health for All: California's Strategic Approach to Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. Summary November 2003.
• Institute of Medicine Report, Unequal Treatment Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare. 2002
• Many Voices, One Direction: Building a Common Agenda for Cultural Competence in Mental Health. A Report to the Community. February 6-8, 2002
• National Network of Medical Libraries resources dealing with minority health concerns
• National Technical Assistance Center for State Mental Health Planning
• SAMHSA article on Women & Violence
• Surgeon General's Report: Mental Health: Culture, Race and Ethnicity
• The Rehabilitation Provider's Guide to Cultures of the Foreign-Born
• Working with Asian Americans: A Guide for Clinicians, Evelyn Lee, Ed., The Guilford Press, New York, 1997.

Suicide Prevention / Intervention Resources

• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP)
• California Strategy for Suicide Prevention - SPAN California - DRAFT
• Registry of Evidence- Based Suicide Prevention Programs
• Suicide Prevention Action Network USA
• Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network -- California
• Suicide Prevention Resource Center

Performance Measurement

Children's Mental Health Benchmarking Project: Fourth Year Report

Out-of-School Time Evaluation Snapshot: Performance Measures in Out-of-School Time Evaluation