Health and Human Services
4440 Department of Mental Health

The California Department of Mental Health, leads the state's mental health system, ensuring the availability and accessibility of effective, efficient, and culturally competent services. Advocacy, education, innovation, outreach, understanding, oversight, monitoring, quality improvement, and the provision of direct services accomplish this mission.

Since department programs drive the need for infrastructure investment, each department has a related capital outlay program to support this need. For the specifics on the Department of Mental Health's Capital Outlay Program see "Infrastructure Overview."
MAJOR PROGRAM CHANGES Back to Top
  • The Forensic Conditional Release Program (CONREP) mandates responsibility to the DMH for outpatient treatment and supervision of judicially committed patients including Mentally Disordered Offenders, individuals found Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity, Mentally Disordered Sex Offenders, and Sexually Violent Predators (SVPs). The Governor's Budget includes $1.8 million General Fund for 2008-09 to provide an incremental 4-percent rate increase to cover the cost of clinical care incurred by county providers and to fund an estimated increase of 4 SVPs into the program.

 BUDGET-BALANCING REDUCTIONS Back to Top
  • The Budget includes General Fund reductions of $17.5 million and 4.2 positions in 2007-08 and $76.8 million and 12.8 positions in 2008-09.
PROGRAMS Back to Top
The following table presents total proposed budget year positions and expenditures for each budgeted program area. These expenditures include all funding sources that support the state agency's programs.
Code Program
 Proposed
2008-09*
Positions
Dollars
10 Community Services
296.5
$3,840,491
20 Long-Term Care Services
10,981.1
1,312,972
35.01 Administration
184.0
20,485
35.02 Distributed Administration
-
-20,485
98 State-Mandated Local Programs
-
-
Totals, Positions and Expenditures (excluding Infrastructure)
11,461.6
$5,153,463
 
 Infrastructure Expenditures
-
6,970
Totals, Positions and All Expenditures
11,461.6
$5,160,433

Refer to the Program Descriptions for a description of programs operated by this state agency.

Refer to the 3-Yr Expenditures & Positions for expenditures, positions, and funding detail.

Refer to the Infrastructure Overview for infrastructure expenditure detail.
PRINTABLE BUDGET DOCUMENTS Back to Top
The following identifies budget documents for this state agency that are available in a printable (pdf) format.

Entire Department of Mental Health Budget (pdf * - 182K) in pdf format.
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of all budget information for this state agency. Note: Along with other information, this document includes the documents listed below.

 Fund Condition Statements ONLY (pdf * - 5K)
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of only the fund condition statements for each fund administered by this state agency.

 Detail of Appropriations and Adjustments ONLY (pdf * - 8K)
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of only the detail of appropriations and adjustments for this state agency.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Back to Top
Legal Citations and Authority
Includes the legal citations (state statutes, federal statutes, and court orders) for operation of department programs and activities.
State Hospital In-Hospital Population (pdf * - 135K)
This table displays the actual or estimated population census for each State hospital facility and psychiatric program on the last Wednesday of each fiscal year and the average population for each fiscal year from Fiscal Year 2004-05 to Fiscal Year 2008-09.