IMPORTANT: Due to the passage of Proposition 1, training materials are updated to reflect changes that are effective January 1st, 2025.
Scroll down to view a summary of Prop 1 changes impacting local advisory board/commission requirements.​

Trainings & Materials

Live Training

Registration

Meeting / Training
January 17 / 18, 2025
Registration     Invitation

Live ​Event Schedule:
2024/2025 Meetings/Trainings

​Training Schedule:
2024/2025 Meetings/Trainings

Handbook

Best Practices Handbook

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Additional Guides

• ​Membership Guide (Sample)
• 2024-25 CA Behavioral Health Budget Overview (CA Budget Center)
• CA Health Care Foundation: 
  • 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

Online  Modules

Duties of Local Boards
     (15 minutes)

​Ethics Training (2-Hours) 

• ​Required per GOV 53234 - 53235.2

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​Behavioral Health Services Act (BHSA):​

1. Funding Categories  (15 Minutes)
2. Stakeholder Involvement Requirements: 2 Pages​​

Recordings & Materials

1. Basic Training: "How to be an Effective MH/BH Board/Commission" (86 minutes)
2. Behavioral Health Continuum  (15 minutes) 
3. BHSA Updates (PowerPoint) (PDF)
4. Chair & Admin  (45 minutes)
5. Community Engagement & ​Unconscious Bias: Ensuring Citizen & Professional Involvement Throughout the Planning Process​​
6. 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)