Building Momentum for 2025
Amie Miller, PsyD., Executive Director
With fall now in full swing and the end-of-year holidays fast approaching, CalMHSA continues its push toward major milestones that will help counties with new requirements and goals in 2025.
Our partnership with DHCS on behavioral health transformation includes several components, one of which is designing a new community stakeholder planning process. We’ll be collaborating with human-centered design firm IDEO to develop a landscape analysis and then a process that meets your needs and your compliance requirements.
Our key goals include conducting a series of deep listening sessions with stakeholders across the state, meaningfully integrating community input into resulting BHSA plans, providing counties with a pre-planning package, creating templated county-specific materials and training your staff on the new process. If you have thoughts or ideas on how we can most effectively work in this space, I’m eager to hear them.
Another aspect of our work with DHCS is creating a series of web-based training modules for county contractors, outlining core competencies for Medi-Cal providers. Topics to be covered will likely include an overview of Medi-Cal requirements, budgeting, site certification and standards, maintaining a credentialed workforce, and clinical readiness.
We are in an especially challenging moment in public behavioral health, but CalMHSA believes it’s also one of great promise as we work together to solve the challenges at hand. Please know that we are not only engaged but excited to assume some of this burden on your behalf.
October 18, 2024
