Seniors

Seniors & Mental/Behavioral Health

Evidence-Based Practices

Promising Practices

Alameda County: GART
CA "Friendship Line"
Los Angeles: PEARLS
Monterey County: Senior Peer Counseling
San Diego County: Geriatric Certificate Program
Siskiyou County: Six Stone Wellness
Tulare County: Visalia Adult Integrated Care
Older Veteran Behavioral Health Resource Inventory, US Department of Veterans Affairs
Senior Peer Counseling (Placer County) 5-minute Video

Issue Briefs

Teleconferences & Webinars

Older Adults and Isolation during COVID-19 Webinar, Mental Health America
02.21.20 Recording - Dr. Kathryn Keitzman, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
- PowerPoint-Only (PDF) - UCLA Keitzman
Reviewing & Advising re: Older Adults (CALBHB/C) PowerPoint-Only (PDF)
Preparing for the Mental Health Needs of Older Adults, SAMSHA
Webinar Slides (PDF)

Workforce/Training

Geriatric Training—On-line courses: SDSU
MH First Aid Training for professionals and volunteers who work with Older Adults (such as Meals on Wheels, Community Centers, Residential and Hospice Care)
Peer Specialists offer experience-based support. Examples: Pool of Consumer Champions; Alliance on Aging Peer Counseling

Reports/Papers

California Mental Health Older Adult System of Care Project, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health,

Older Adults Experiencing First Episode Psychosis & Late Onset of Serious Mental Illness, CA Behavioral Health Planning Council, June 2019

Aging and Addicted: The Opioid Epidemic Affects Older Adults Too,
Kaiser Health News, 2016

CA Mental Health Older Adult System of Care Project: Proposed Outcomes & Indicators for Older Adult Public Mental Health Services,
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Mental Health and Older Adults, World Health Organization, 2016

CA Association of Area Agencies on Aging – C4A

Position Paper: Social Isolation
Position Paper, LTC Ombudsman
Position Paper, Digital Divide
Position Paper, Nutrition

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.