63
37
30
25
23
9 7
Stakeholder Representation
Community/Social Service
Agency
County government
Community members
Family/caregiver
Direct consumer
Faith community
Veteran
Innovation Stakeholder Demographics,
continued
The quality of the discussions which took place in the stakeholder participation meetings
were a result of the diverse backgrounds of participants who attended. People with
organizational affiliations were the largest group, with roughly one fourth (1/4) of
participants, 63 people, indicating they were affiliated with either community or social
service agencies. One in six, 37 people, affiliated with being employees of county
government. However, consumers were also well represented, with 30 people
identifying as community members, 25 as family or caregiver of a consumer, and 23 as
direct consumers of mental health services. In addition, nine (9) people identified as
being affiliated with the faith community and seven (7) were either active military or
veterans. DBH identified that there were no responses received that reflected
representation from law enforcement, education, health care providers, veteran’s
organizations, or providers of drug and alcohol services, despite reaching out to each of
these populations with an invitation to attend. This is an area in which we will further
develop outreach and engagement strategies for both ongoing and ad hoc meeting
participation in Community Program Planning (CPP) processes. The total number of
responses was 194 (from the 150 comment forms collected), due to participants’ ability
to select as many options as they felt they represented.
County of San Bernardino Department of Behavioral Health
Mental Health Services Act Innovation (INN) Plan
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