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 Governor's Budget includes a reduction of $762.6 million General Fund in 2011-12 for the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) and mental health managed care (MHMC) programs and a substitution with Mental Health Services Act (Proposition 63) funds for these programs and AB 3632 services.
PROGRAMS Back to Top
The following table presents total proposed budget year personnel years and expenditures for each budgeted program area. These expenditures include all funding sources that support the state agency's programs.
Code Program
 Proposed
2011-12*
Personnel
Years
Dollars
10 Community Services
171.2
$3,189,537
15 Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission
-
-
20 Long-Term Care Services
10,736.9
1,346,304
35.01 Administration
218.5
19,233
35.02 Distributed Administration
-
-19,233
Totals, Personnel Years and Expenditures (excluding Infrastructure)
11,126.6
$4,535,841
 
 Infrastructure Expenditures
-
95,374
Totals, Personnel Years and All Expenditures
11,126.6
$4,631,215

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

Refer to the 3-Yr Expenditures & Personnel Years for expenditures, personnel years, 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 * - 319K) 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 * - 9K)
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 * - 136K)
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 2007-08 to Fiscal Year 2011-12.

 Mental Health Service Act Housing Support Account (pdf * - 144K)
This table displays the fund condition statement for the Mental Health Services Act Housing Support Account. This information is used to track the fiscal allocations made for the Housing Initiative Program as established under the Mental Health Services Act.