News/Issues

  1. ​​​Board/Commission News
  2. Children & Youth
    1. Children's Issues
    2. Foster Children
    3. Transitional Age Youth​
  3. Co-Occurring
    1. Dementia
    2. Developmental Disabilities
    3. Substance Use Disorder
    4. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
  4. Coordinated Care
  5. Courts
  6. Crisis Care Continuum
  7. ​Cultural Issues​
  8. Disaster Recovery
  9. Employment
  10. Homeless/Housing
  11. Jails/Prisons
  12. Laura's Law
  13. Law Enforcement
  14. Legislation
  15. LGBTQ
  16. Lanterman Petris Short (LPS) Act
  17. Navigator Programs
  18. Parity
  19. Patients' Rights
  20. Peer Supports
  21. Psychiatric Advance Directives (PADs)
  22. Seniors
  23. Stigma
  24. Substance Use Disorder​
  25. ​Suicide
  26. ​Veterans
  27. Whole Person Care
  28. Workforce​
  29. Youth Issues (ages 16-25)
​CA counties map by behavioral health region, showing 58 counties plus Berkeley and Tri-Cities. (Sutter and Yuba Counties are one jurisdiction). View map.
The california association of local behavioral* health boards & commissions (cALBHB/C) supports the work of california's 59 local behavioral health boards and commissions by providing resources, training and Technical Assistance. 

Local boards are responsible** for reviewing public behavioral health needs, services, facilities and special problems, and serve in an advisory capacity to local governing bodies and local behavioral health directors. ​

​*"Behavioral" Refers to Mental Health as well as Alcohol and Drugs.
**CA Welfare & Institutions Code (WIC) 5604
Donations are welcome. CALBHB/C is a nonprofit organization.