Community Program Planning Overview,
continued
Social media sites such as Facebook (
please see Attachments
) were also used to
promote the process and extended the reach of the department in connecting interested
community members with the stakeholder process. DBH’s Facebook is accessible at
DBH engages stakeholders, provides information, and invites feedback about MHSA
programs throughout the year using regularly scheduled monthly meetings. Schedules
for these meetings are available to the public and distributed widely with interpreter
services available to participating community members for the following meetings:
•
Behavioral Health Commission (BHC)
•
District Advisory Committee meetings (separate monthly meetings, one (1) held
in each of the five (5) supervisorial districts within the county and led by the
Behavioral Health Commissioners in that district)
•
Community Policy Advisory Committee (CPAC)
•
Cultural Competency Advisory Committee (CCAC)
•
Transitional Age Youth (TAY) Center Advisory Boards
•
Consumer Clubhouse Advisory Boards
•
Quality Management Action Committee (QMAC)
•
MHSA Executive Committee
•
Association of Community Based Organizations (ACBO)
•
Room and Board Advisory Coalition
•
Workforce Development Committee
To ensure inclusion of diverse cultural groups and the faith-based community, input was
also collected from the following Cultural Competency Advisory Committee
subcommittees*:
•
Asian Pacific Islander Subcommittee
•
Co-Occurring and Substance Abuse Subcommittee (COSAC)
•
Disabilities Subcommittee
•
High Desert African American Subcommittee
•
Latino Health Subcommittee
•
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Subcommittee
•
Native American Awareness Subcommittee
•
Spirituality Subcommittee
•
Transitional Age Youth (TAY) Subcommittee
•
Veteran’s Subcommittee
•
Women’s Subcommittee
*As of the time of this printing, all CCAC coalitions and committees were uniformly designated as subcommittees.
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Mental Health Services Act Innovation (INN) Plan
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