WHAT TO KNOW: Governor Newsom proposed a 2024 poll initiative to enhance how California treats psychological sickness, substance abuse, and homelessness: A bond to construct state-of-the-art psychological well being remedy residential settings locally to deal with Californians with psychological sickness and substance use problems and to create housing for homeless veterans, and modernize the Psychological Well being Companies Act to require at the very least $1 billion yearly for behavioral well being housing and care
SAN DIEGO – Governor Gavin Newsom, in partnership with Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton), has proposed the subsequent step to modernize how California treats psychological sickness, substance use problems, and homelessness.
An initiative would go on the 2024 poll that may:
- Authorize a basic obligation bond to:
- Construct hundreds of latest group behavioral well being beds in state-of-the-art residential settings to deal with Californians with psychological sickness and substance use problems, which might serve over 10,000 folks yearly in residential-style settings which have on-site providers – not in establishments of the previous, however places the place folks can really heal.
- Present extra funding particularly for housing for homeless veterans.
- Amend the Psychological Well being Companies Act (MHSA), resulting in at the very least $1 billion yearly in native help for housing and residential providers for folks experiencing psychological sickness and substance use problems, and permitting MHSA funds to serve folks with substance use problems.
- Embody new accountability and oversight measures for counties to enhance efficiency.
The MHSA was initially handed 20 years in the past; it’s now time to refresh it so it could higher meet the challenges we face. Key adjustments that the Governor is proposing embrace: Making a everlasting supply of housing funding of $1 billion a yr in native help funds to serve folks with acute behavioral well being points, specializing in Full Service Partnerships for essentially the most critically ailing; and permitting MHSA for use for folks with substance use problems alone.
WHAT GOVERNOR NEWSOM SAID: “That is the subsequent step in our transformation of how California addresses psychological sickness, substance use problems, and homelessness – creating hundreds of latest beds, constructing extra housing, increasing providers, and extra. People who find themselves scuffling with these points, particularly those that are on the streets or in different weak situations, may have extra sources to get the assistance they want.”
WHAT COMES NEXT: The Administration plans to work in shut partnership with legislative leaders on this area together with Senator Eggman and Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (D-Thousand Oaks), in addition to with the California State Affiliation of Counties, different important native authorities stakeholders, community-based service organizations, advocates, and other people with lived expertise as invoice language is developed.
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WHAT ELSE GOV. NEWSOM HAS DONE:
- $2.2 billion for the Behavioral Well being Continuum Infrastructure Program.
- $1.5 billion for Behavioral Well being Bridge Housing.
- $1.4 billion to increase and diversify the behavioral well being workforce.
- $4.7 billion Grasp Plan for Children’ Psychological Well being, of which the Youngsters and Youth Behavioral Well being Initiative is the central part.
- $1.4 billion to construct out a Medi-Cal profit for cellular disaster response, in addition to $38 million to increase 9-8-8 and CalHOPE disaster name middle.
- Over $600 million to help community-based options to state hospitalization for individuals who commit felonies who’re incompetent to face trial.
- Over $1 billion to deal with the opioid epidemic.
- $7 billion to reform CalAIM – enhanced care administration for folks with severe psychological sickness, a no flawed door strategy to care, and extra.
- $1.6 billion proposed to implement the California Behavioral Well being Neighborhood-Based mostly Continuum Demonstration to strengthen providers and helps for individuals who are vulnerable to homelessness, incarceration and foster care placements.
- $50 million for the California Veterans Well being Initiative (CVHI) for veteran suicide prevention and psychological well being.
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