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Announcements:

  • Draft Review Tool - CSS HousingPDF Icon
  • Draft Review Tool - Capital Facilities/IT PDF Icon

    The MHSOAC has the responsibility to review and provide comments to the Department of Mental Health on the Community Services and Supports Housing component and for the Capital Facilities and Technology component of the MHSA. Above for your review and comment are the draft review tools for both of these components. Please provide written comments to MHSOAC@dmh.ca.gov no later than May 23, 2008. In addition, you may also provide verbal public comment on these tools at the MHSOAC's May 29, 2008 meeting in Sacramento.

  • Invitation for Offer - PEI Subject Matter Consultants
  • Mono and Plumas County PEI Plans
  • Sign up for the MHSOAC Subscriber List! PDF Icon
  • Staff Division of CA Counties
  • Sacramento Radio show "Insight" interviews MHSOAC Chair Linford Gayle.

    The interview revealed some of the compelling personal and professional life experiences of Chair Gayle, including his stigma-busting mental health history. You may download the podcast of this radio show to your computer with the procedure that follows this message.

    To download:

    1. Go to www.capradio.org
    2. In middle left of screen, click on "Podcasts".
    3. In middle of screen, click on "Insight".
    4. In left of screen, under recent shows, click on "March 20, Linford Gayle..."
    5. In middle of screen, under Thursday, March 20, 2008, click on "Listen to Archive".
    6. In middle of Audio Player on screen, click on "download audio". Windows media player should appear on your screen. Wait for download and then play.
  • MHSOAC Cultural and Linguistic Competency Workplan PDF Icon
  • MHSOAC Workforce, Education and Training Roles and Responsibilities PDF Icon

    The MHSOAC would like to share its resource document on WET. This document is not meant to take the place of the DMH proposed WET guidelines, but rather should be used to understand the MHSOAC principles for WET. If you have any questions, please contact Earl Green at 916-445-8723. - 02/27/2008

Meetings:

For further information please click on the meeting date.

About MHSOAC

In November 2004, California voters passed Proposition 63, the Mental Health Services Act pdficon (MHSA) with 53.4% of the vote. The new law calls for the establishment of the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (MHSOAC). Section 5845(a) of the Welfare and Institutions Code defines the creation and composition of the Commission:

The Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission is hereby established to oversee Part 3, the Adults and Older Adults Systems of Care Act; Part 3.1, Human Resources; Part 3.2, Innovative Programs; Part 3.6, Prevention and Early Intervention Programs; and Part 4, the Children’s Mental Health Services Act. The Commission shall replace the advisory committee established pursuant to Section 5814.

For more information about upcoming Commission meetings, click here.

For more information on the Mental Health Services Act, visit the MHSA web page.