The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to adopt its Draft Three-Year FY 26-29 Behavioral Health Integrated Plan, required by the passage of Proposition One by voters in March of 2024. The intent of the Integrated Plan is to modernize the behavioral health delivery system in California. California’s Proposition One (also known as Behavioral Health Transformation) is expected to significantly expand mental health and substance use disorder treatment capacity while restructuring how the state funds behavioral health services. The Integrated Plan also redirects existing funding streams toward housing support, with 30% of the Mental Health Services Act revenue to be allocated to housing intervention programs rather than traditional outpatient and crisis services. The Plan emphasizes outcomes, accountability, and equity in service delivery, and covers all funding within the County Department of Health Services.
Developed through a locally-designed planning process, requiring the involvement of stakeholders from twenty-nine identified groups, counties are currently completing 30-day open comment periods before revising and forwarding the recommended Integrated Plans to Boards of Supervisors. HEAPA believes that reviewing the draft plans of all California counties would be a useful process, and has therefore developed a spreadsheet listing links to county behavioral health websites with information about their planning processes and resulting draft plans.
The Sonoma County Behavioral Health Board’s meeting this Tuesday, from 5-7pm, in the Santa Rosa Conference Room at 1440 Neotomas Ave, will offer an opportunity to make final comments on the Draft County Plan.
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