Trainings & Materials

Live Training

Schedule:
2025-2026 Meetings/Trainings

Handbook

Best Practices Handbook

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Local Membership Guide

​Membership Guide (Sample)

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Additional Guides

• Budget Information:
  • 2024-25 CA Behavioral Health Budget Overview (CA Budget Center)
• Medi-Cal Information:
  • ​BH CONNECT | Behavioral Health Community-Based Organized Networks of Equitable Care and Treatment (BH-CONNECT) Initiative
  • CalAIM 
    • CalAIM Explained CA Health Care Foundation, (CHCF) 2023
  • Medi-Cal Explained CA Health Care Foundation, (CHCF) 2019​
• BH Funding in CA (CA Hospital Association), 2016

Special Trainings

L.A. County Trainings August 2023

15 Minute Modules

A. Duties: Duties of Local Behavioral Health Boards
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​B. BHSA: Behavioral Health Services Act

• ​Funding Categories; ​Funding Categories Summary (1 Page)
• Stakeholder Involvement Requirements: 2 Pages​​

Recordings & Materials

1. Basic Training: "How to be an Effective Behavioral Health Board/Commission" (86 minutes)
2. Behavioral Health Continuum  (15 minutes) 
3. BHSA Updates (PowerPoint) (PDF)
4. Chair & Admin  (45 minutes)
5. Community Planning & ​Unconscious Bias: Ensuring Citizen & Professional Involvement Throughout the Planning Process
6. ​​Ethics Training (2-Hour Interactive Training) 
   ​Required per GOV 53234 - 53235.2 (CA Dept of Justice)​​
7. History - YouTube and article regarding the history of Behavioral Health in California

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*PROP 1 / "Behavioral Health Services Act" Summary of Changes to Duties & Membership - WIC 5604

Effective January 1, 2025:

1. Youth Membership Requirement: 5604. (2)(B)(i) Fifty percent of the board membership shall be consumers, or the parents, spouses, siblings, or adult children of consumers, who are receiving or have received behavioral health services. One of these members shall be an individual who is 25 years of age or younger.  (ii) At least 20 percent of the total membership shall be consumers, and at least 20 percent shall be families of consumers.
2. Local Education Agency Membership Requirement: 5604. (2)(D) (i) At least one member of the board shall be an employee of a local education agency. (ii) To comply with clause (i), a county shall notify its county office of education about vacancies on the board.
3. "Mental" is changed to "Behavioral", and advising regarding "substance use disorder" is added within the duties. View all changes (PDF)