California Association of Local Behavioral Health Boards & Commissions
  • Home
  • Resources
  • News/Issues
    • News/Issues (Full Listing)
    • News/Issues A - D >
      • Board & Commission News
      • Children's Issues >
        • Foster Children and Youth
      • Coordinated Care
      • Co-Occurring >
        • Dementia
        • Developmental Disabilities
        • Substance Use Disorder
        • TBI
      • Courts
      • Crisis Care Continuum
      • Cultural Issues
      • Disaster Recovery/Readiness
    • News/Issues E - P >
      • Employment
      • Homeless / Housing
      • Hospitals
      • Jails & Prisons
      • Laura's Law
      • Law Enforcement
      • LGBTQ >
        • LGBTQ+ Definitions and Acronyms
      • LPS Act
      • Navigator Programs
      • Parity
      • Patients' Rights
      • Peer Supports
      • Psychiatric Advance Directives
    • News/Issues Q - Z >
      • Stigma
      • Seniors
      • Substance Use Disorder (SUD)
      • Suicide
      • Veterans
      • Whole Person Care
      • Workforce
      • Youth Issues (Ages 16-25)
  • Performance
    • ByCOUNTY
    • byTOPIC
  • Meetings
  • Training
  • Contact Us
  • Association Docs
  • Home
  • Resources
  • News/Issues
    • News/Issues (Full Listing)
    • News/Issues A - D >
      • Board & Commission News
      • Children's Issues >
        • Foster Children and Youth
      • Coordinated Care
      • Co-Occurring >
        • Dementia
        • Developmental Disabilities
        • Substance Use Disorder
        • TBI
      • Courts
      • Crisis Care Continuum
      • Cultural Issues
      • Disaster Recovery/Readiness
    • News/Issues E - P >
      • Employment
      • Homeless / Housing
      • Hospitals
      • Jails & Prisons
      • Laura's Law
      • Law Enforcement
      • LGBTQ >
        • LGBTQ+ Definitions and Acronyms
      • LPS Act
      • Navigator Programs
      • Parity
      • Patients' Rights
      • Peer Supports
      • Psychiatric Advance Directives
    • News/Issues Q - Z >
      • Stigma
      • Seniors
      • Substance Use Disorder (SUD)
      • Suicide
      • Veterans
      • Whole Person Care
      • Workforce
      • Youth Issues (Ages 16-25)
  • Performance
    • ByCOUNTY
    • byTOPIC
  • Meetings
  • Training
  • Contact Us
  • Association Docs
PDF for Print

​​ISSUE BRIEF:  Performance Outcome Data

It is in the best interest of the state and local communities to know the impact of
Mental Health Services Act (“MHSA”, Proposition 63) offerings.

Need to Standardize

Each of CA’s 59 mental/behavioral health agencies collect and report on different MHSA performance outcome data, with some providing meaningful data, and some providing very little performance outcome data.

Suggested Data Points
(also see Notes: 1 and 2 below)

Children & Youth
School-based Wellness (Attendance, Grades, Classroom Behavior)
Standardized Screening /Assessment
Reporting by Self/Family

Criminal Justice Involvement
Incarceration/Diversion (# of Days, 
    # of Arrests, Referral/Placement)

Employment
Competitive
Sustained

Hospitalizations
# of Hospitalizations
Days Hospitalized
Emergency-Room Visits
Crisis Psychiatric Visits

Housing/Homelessness 
Permanent Housing
Days of Homelessness

1  Data should include outcomes specific to culture/race/ethnicity and age.
2  Very small counties may need to report trends instead of numbers.

California Law

California Law WIC 5848(c)) specifies
that MHSA plans shall include reports on the achievement of performance outcomes, to be established jointly by:
 
Department of Health Care Services
and
Mental Health Services Oversight &
Accountability Commission

 
in collaboration with
 
County Behavioral Health Directors
Association of CA

 
and with the review
and approval of the
 
CA Behavioral Health Planning Council
CBHPC is tasked with reviewing and approving the performance outcome measures, and reviewing the performance of mental health and substance use disorder programs based on performance outcome data and other reports from the State Department of Health Care Services and other sources (WIC 5772)
 
On the local level, it is the duty of:
 
California’s 59
Local Mental/Behavioral Health
Boards & Commissions

to review and comment on performance outcome data to the CA Behavioral Health Planning Council.
(WIC 5604.2(7))

PROMISING DATA

Children & Youth
Nevada County
 
Criminal Justice
Los Angeles County
Merced County
Sacramento County
San Diego County
San Mateo County
Sonoma County

Employment
Alameda County
Los Angeles County
Solano County
 
Hospitalization
Los Angeles County
Merced County
Riverside County
Sacramento County
Sonoma County
​Housing/Homelessness
Los Angeles County
Merced County
Placer County
Sonoma County


ALL COUNTIES

​Links to performance outcome data for all counties/juridictions (Medi-Cal, SAMHSA and MHSA).
Alameda
Alpine
Amador
City of Berkeley
Butte
Calaveras
Colusa
Contra Costa
Del Norte
El Dorado​
Fresno
Glenn
Humboldt
Imperial
Inyo
Kern
Kings
Lake
Lassen
Los Angeles​
Madera
Marin
Mariposa
Mendocino
Merced
Modoc
Mono
Monterey
Napa
Nevada
Orange
Placer
Plumas
Riverside
Sacramento
San Benito
San Bernardino
San Diego
San Francisco
San Joaquin​
​​San Luis Obispo
San Mateo
Santa Barbara
Santa Clara
Santa Cruz
Shasta
Sierra
Siskiyou
Solano
Sonoma
Stanislaus
Sutter-Yuba
​Tehama
Tri-City 
Trinity
Tulare
​Tuolumne
Ventura
Yolo

OFFICE

717 K STREET, SUITE 427
SACRAMENTO, CA 95814

mission

cALBHB/C supports the work of california's 59 local mental/ behavioral health boards and commissions by providing resources, training, and opportunities for communication and statewide advocacy.

Local boards are responsible for reviewing community mental health needs, services, facilities and special problems, and serve in an advisory capacity to local governing bodies and local mental/behavioral health directors per CA Welfare and Institutions Code 5604.2.
Donations are welcome. CALBHB/C is a nonprofit organization.