Alberto Castro

This work plan outlines the strategic objectives for the Housing and Homelessness Committee, focusing on two main goals: advocating for equitable access to housing for persons with serious mental illness across the lifespan by assessing resources, identifying impediments, and making population-specific recommendations; and contributing to the development of regulations for housing initiatives for persons with serious mental illness by providing input on funding initiatives and collaborating with stakeholders. The plan aims to improve housing access and ensure effective regulatory frameworks.

This document outlines California's comprehensive strategy and initiatives to address critical behavioral health workforce shortages and disparities across the state. Key focus areas include developing a data-driven statewide behavioral health workforce strategy to understand and resolve supply/demand gaps, expanding and diversifying the behavioral health workforce through various programs like BH-CONNECT, and implementing the mandates of Proposition 1. The plan aims to increase access to affordable, culturally competent care by investing in workforce education, training, recruitment, and retention, culminating in the development of the 2026-2030 Workforce Education and Training Five-Year Plan.

This document outlines the Performance Outcomes System Plan for Medi-Cal Specialty Mental Health Services for Children & Youth. The plan details a comprehensive framework for evaluating mental health services, emphasizing improved outcomes at individual, program, system, and community levels. It identifies seven key domains for assessment: Access, Engagement, Service Appropriateness to Need, Service Effectiveness, Linkages, Cost, and Satisfaction. The plan sets forth a timeline for initial system reporting by Fiscal Year 2014-15 and comprehensive reporting by Fiscal Year 2015-16, supported by continuous quality improvement processes and stakeholder collaboration.

This work plan outlines the strategic direction for the Workforce and Employment Committee of the California Behavioral Health Planning Council. It focuses on addressing the behavioral health workforce shortage, enhancing training, and promoting employment opportunities for individuals with psychiatric disabilities and substance use disorders. Key objectives include providing leadership for workforce growth and quality, advocating for funding, supporting individuals with lived experience in the workforce, engaging educational institutions, and ensuring mental health consumers have equitable access to employment support services.

This Policy Platform outlines the California Behavioral Health Planning Council's (CBHPC) perspectives on priority issues and legislation to advocate for accessible and effective behavioral health and substance use disorder systems. The plan is guided by principles of wellness, recovery, resiliency, advocacy, education, inclusion of lived experience, cultural humility, and system accountability. Key focus areas include reducing stigma, augmenting funding, ensuring appropriate services, supporting local boards, promoting stakeholder participation, monitoring the Behavioral Health Services Act, and advocating for sustainable funding. Specific priority policy areas cover patient rights, system accountability and evaluation, housing and homelessness, workforce and employment, continuum of care, and substance use disorders.