WHAT TO KNOW: Governor Newsom proposed a 2024 poll initiative to enhance how California treats psychological sickness, substance abuse, and homelessness: A bond to construct state-of-the-art psychological well being therapy residential settings locally to deal with Californians with psychological sickness and substance use issues and to create housing for homeless veterans, and modernize the Mental Health Services Act to require no less than $1 billion yearly for behavioral well being housing and care

SAN DIEGO – Governor Gavin Newsom, in partnership with Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton), has proposed the following step to modernize how California treats psychological sickness, substance use issues, and homelessness.

An initiative would go on the 2024 poll that might:

1. Authorize a normal obligation bond to:
   1. Build 1000’s of latest group behavioral well being beds in state-of-the-art residential settings to deal with Californians with psychological sickness and substance use issues, which may serve over 10,000 individuals yearly in residential-style settings which have on-site providers – not in establishments of the previous, however areas the place individuals can really heal.
   2. Provide extra funding particularly for housing for homeless veterans.
2. Amend the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), resulting in no less than $1 billion yearly in native help for housing and residential providers for individuals experiencing psychological sickness and substance use issues, and permitting MHSA funds to serve individuals with substance use issues.
3. Include new accountability and oversight measures for counties to enhance efficiency.

The MHSA was initially handed 20 years in the past; it’s now time to refresh it so it could actually higher meet the challenges we face. Key modifications that the Governor is proposing embrace: Creating a everlasting supply of housing funding of $1 billion a yr in native help funds to serve individuals with acute behavioral well being points, specializing in Full Service Partnerships for essentially the most significantly in poor health; and permitting MHSA for use for individuals with substance use issues alone.

WHAT GOVERNOR NEWSOM SAID: “This is the next step in our transformation of how California addresses mental illness, substance use disorders, and homelessness – creating thousands of new beds, building more housing, expanding services, and more. People who are struggling with these issues, especially those who are on the streets or in other vulnerable conditions, will have more resources to get the help they need.”

WHAT COMES NEXT: The Administration plans to work in shut partnership with legislative leaders on this area together with Senator Eggman and Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (D-Thousand Oaks), in addition to with the California State Association of Counties, different essential native authorities stakeholders, community-based service organizations, advocates, and other people with lived expertise as invoice language is developed.

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WHAT ELSE GOV. NEWSOM HAS DONE:

• $2.2 billion for the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program.
• $1.5 billion for Behavioral Health Bridge Housing.
• $1.4 billion to develop and diversify the behavioral well being workforce.
• $4.7 billion Master Plan for Kids’ Mental Health, of which the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative is the central part.
• $1.4 billion to construct out a Medi-Cal profit for cellular disaster response, in addition to $38 million to develop 9-8-8 and CalHOPE disaster name heart.
• Over $600 million to help community-based alternate options to state hospitalization for many who commit felonies who’re incompetent to face trial.
• Over $1 billion to handle the opioid epidemic.
• $7 billion to reform CalAIM – enhanced care administration for individuals with critical psychological sickness, a no mistaken door method to care, and extra.
• $1.6 billion proposed to implement the California Behavioral Health Community-Based Continuum Demonstration to strengthen providers and helps for many who are prone to homelessness, incarceration and foster care placements.
• $50 million for the California Veterans Health Initiative (CVHI) for veteran suicide prevention and psychological well being.

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