To many among us, suicide seems like the shocking and inexplicable end we never saw coming for a family member, colleague, or friend. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
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The Commission works through partnerships to catalyze transformational changes across service systems so that everyone who needs mental health care has access to and receives effective and culturally competent care.
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We are pleased to announce that the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission’s Criminal Justice Data Linkage Project has won a StateScoop 50 award in the State IT Innovation of the Year category.
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The Commission's recommendations to help mitigate the inevitable mental health-related aftermath of COVID-19 and its economic and social ramifications.
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In November of 2019, the Commission released a strategic plan to reduce suicide and suicidal behavior in the Golden State. Now it’s time to put that plan into action.
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The California Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission has produced a strategic plan to reduce suicide and suicidal behavior. Striving for Zero is based on the best available research and evidence, and earlier this month, the Commission approved funding for five initiatives to begin implementing the plan.
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MHSA Transparency Dashboard
The MHSA Transparency Dashboard is the new home for all online MHSA data transparency tools. The page provides high-level statistics on each county’s service need indicators as well as MHSA budgets, programs offered, and program outcomes.
Fiscal Reporting Tool
County mental health departments receive $8 billion annually to support public mental health services. The The Fiscal Reporting Tool tracks county revenues, expenditures and unspent funds on MHSA programs accounting for roughly $3.5 million annually spent by the Counties through those programs.
MHSOAC Program Search Tool
Counties fund more than 2,000 MHSA programs annually. The Program Search Tool allows users to search county MHSA programs by keyword and to filter by fiscal year, county, MHSA component and target population; view a program profile; and compare up to three programs side by side.
Full Service Partnerships (FSP) Dashboard
The Full Service Partnerships (FSP) Dashboard includes data on money, clients, and outcomes for MHSA-funded FSP programs. These are integrated, “whatever it takes” approaches to serving individuals with severe mental illnesses. The dashboard provides information on percent of expenditures of FSP programs, percent of clients tracked and assessed, percent of FSP service days by client age, and breakdown of disenrollment reasons.
