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Health and Human Services
Department of Mental Health
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ACT (PROPOSITION 63) HOUSING PROGRAM
The Budget includes $1.49 billion in Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) funds for Proposition 63, of which $100 million is committed by counties to the MHSA Housing Program. This funding is in addition to $300 million identified by counties in 2007-08. This program makes funding available through the California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA) to develop permanent supportive housing serving persons with serious mental illness who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
NEW DIVISION OF CORRECTIONAL MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
In response to the Plata Receiver's request for additional resources to improve mental healthcare for prison inmates, the Department of Mental Health (DMH) and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) will undertake a joint project to provide 1,000 new mental health beds located in two of seven new healthcare facilities, the first of which is tentatively scheduled to open in January 2011. In 2008, through an inter-agency agreement with CDCR, the DMH will establish a new division within the department that will oversee the clinical and administrative operation of these facilities and will assume responsibility for providing acute and intermediate in-patient mental health treatment services to inmate-patients.
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