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Read the full text of the Mental Health Services Act in EnglishPDF Icon or en EspañolPDF Icon.
MHSA Expenditure Report FY 2006-2007 - Addendum PDF Icon
MHSA Expenditure Report FY 2006-2007 - A Report to the Legislature PDF Icon
MHSA Expenditure Report FY 2005-2006 - Addendum PDF Icon
MHSA Expenditure Report FY 2005-2006 - A Report to the Legislature PDF Icon
ACCMHA Position Paper on the Mental Health Services Act PDF Icon
ACCMHA Position Paper on the Mental Health Services Act -- Executive Summary PDF Icon
A Wish List of Broken Rules PDF Icon
California Association of Social Rehabilitation Agencies - Comments on CSS Program and Expenditure Requirements PDF Icon
California Network of Mental Health Clients - Position Paper PDF Icon
Corporation for Supportive Housing - Written Stakeholder Meeting Input PDF Icon
From Fail-First to Help-First; Proposition 63 Transforms California Mental Health System PDF Icon
Implementing Prop. 63 with Vision and Purpose PDF Icon
Key Issues for Community Mental Health Agencies and First Steps for DMH Implementation PDF Icon
Mental Health Services Act Housing Toolkit PDF Icon
NAMI California Position Paper on Implementation of the MHSA PDF Icon
SEIU Position Paper on the Mental Health Services Act PDF Icon
SEIU Position Paper on the Mental Health Services Act - Executive Summary PDF Icon
United Advocates for Children of California - Position Paper PDF Icon
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 PDF Icon
EMQ Wraparound Services
Healthy People 2010 Objectives - Mental Health Section PDF Icon
President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Report
SQIC/IOM Aims For the Public Mental Health System PDF Icon
SQIC/IOM Discussion Work Group Progress Report - February 2004 PDF Icon
SQIC/IOM Proposed Recommendations PDF Icon
SQIC IOM Quality Chasm Principles and Rules for Behavioral Health PDF Icon
The Campaign for Mental Health Reform
Adults
Best Practices Training Grid - May 11, 2005 (Version 1.3) PDF Icon
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 PDF Icon
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 PDF Icon
Recovery Culture Readiness Inventory PDF Icon
Welfare and Institutions Code §§ 5806 - 5814.5
Older Adult
ASOC/OASOC Literature Review Template - CMHDA PDF Icon
ASOC/OASOC Transitional Adults Subcommittee Fact Shee - CMHDA PDF Icon
Assessment form (North Carolina): Mental Health Services for Older and Disabled Adults PDF Icon
From Adult to Older Adult, Discovering the Transition - CMHDA PDF Icon
Identifying High Risk Transitional Adults in the County Mental Health Systems PDF Icon
MHSA and Older Californians: Geriatric Leaders Identify Essential Education and Training Needs - CGEC PDF Icon
Older Adult System of Care Framework - CMHDA PDF Icon
Older Americans Act Requirements for the Local Planning Process PDF Icon
Position Paper on Building an Older Adult System of Care - CMHDA PDF Icon
System Analysis of the Older Adult System of Care Demonstration Project - FY 2000-2003 PDF Icon
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 PDF Icon
Child Welfare Services Redesign: The Future of Child Welfare Services - Final Report, September 2003 PDF Icon
Children's Mental health Benchmarking Project Report
Children's System of Care Framework - CMHDA PDF Icon
Connecticut Community KidCare Statutes PDF Icon
Focal Point: Research, Policy, and Practice in Children's Mental Health - Resilience and Recovery PDF Icon
Forum Focus on Youth Policy PDF Icon
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 PDF Icon
Guide to the Mental Health Services Act for Children and Youth - UACC (English Version) PDF Icon
Guía familiar para niños y jóvenes: La Ley de Servicios de Salud Mental (En Español) PDF Icon
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 PDF Icon
Transition Age Youth Resource Guide: Services, Promising Practices & Implementation Guidelines for Caifornia's Mental Health Services
Voices of Youth in Transition PDF Icon
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 PDF Icon
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. PDF Icon
Gender Matters in Mental Health: An Initial Examination of Gender-Based Data, Publication of the CA Women's Mental Health Policy Council February 2004. PDF Icon
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. PDF Icon
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 PDF Icon
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 PDF Icon
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 PDF Icon
Out-of-School Time Evaluation Snapshot: Performance Measures in Out-of-School Time Evaluation