Building California’s Behavioral Health Infrastructure: Progress Update and Opportunities for the Proposition 1 Bond

Feb 5, 2025 - In addition, there has been mixed success in siting behavioral health infrastructure in counti es where it did not exist prior to BHCIP. BHCIP May Not Be Working Well for All Grant Applicants. We identified a few program design details that may be posing barriers for potential applicants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

Mental Health Services Act: Impact of Governor's Proposal on Funding for Children and Youth

Aug 10, 2023 - However, to estimate the amount of Community Services and Supports (CSS) and Innovation expenditur es that go towards children and youth services, we used program names across counties to determine if they might qualify as children and youth services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4786

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Health

Apr 5, 2022 - Extreme heat and wildfire smoke that make it dangerous to spend time outside during certain tim es also could disproportionately affect people who are institutionalized (such as patients at State Hospitals and individuals in state prisons and county jails).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4580

The 2018-19 Budget: Meeting Workforce Demand for Certified Nursing Assistants in Skilled Nursing Facilities

Apr 27, 2018 - We also recommend directing DPH to report quarterly on average processing tim es within its Licensing and Certification Program for CNA-related workload. Information from these quarterly reports could help the Legislature moving forward in setting an appropriate DPH staffing level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3815

The 2018-19 Budget: Analysis of the Health and Human Services Budget

Feb 16, 2018 - We therefore exclude from these estimates CCR spending on county mental health servic es and state operations.) This analysis provides a brief overview of the existing foster care system, summarizes the major policy changes under CCR, provides a status update on CCR implementation to date, and assesses the Governor ’s CCR budget proposal for 2018 ‑ 19 i n light of the reform effort ’s current successes and challenges.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3757