Mental Health and Universal Coverage
The Mental Health and Universal Coverage report covers the following areas: incidence and consequences of untreated mental illness; access to effective mental health services; access to mental health coverage; public funding streams for mental health services; and status of the mental health parity debate. |
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Summary of Psychosocial Interventions for Ethnic Populations of Children/Adolecents and Adults
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Dimensions of Culturally Relevant, Evidence-Based Interventions for Ethnic Populations
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A Strategic Plan to Increase the Flow of Minority, Bilingual and Culturally Competent Professional Social Workers into California's Mental Health System
Prepared by the Center for Social Services Research at the University of California, Berkeley, and funded by The California Endowment, the report A Strategic Plan to Increase the Flow of Minority, Bilingual and Culturally Competent Professional Social Workers into California's Mental Health System, provides research and recommendations on recruitment strategies. These recommendations are not narrow in focus, but also address a number of issues that affect recruitment of minority and bilingual students into California’s social work educational programs. |
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A Strategic Plan to Increase the Flow of Minority, Bilingual and Culturally Competent Professional Social Workers into California’s Mental Health System: focus group
As a companion piece for the Strategic Plan to Increase the Flow of Minority, Bilingual and Culturally Competent Professional Social Workers into California’s Mental Health System, this report presents focus group and key informant findings and recommendations. It was prepared by the Center for Social Services Research at the University of California, Berkeley, and funded by The California Endowment. |
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A Strategic Plan to Increase the Flow of Minority, Bilingual and Culturally Competent Professional Social Workers into California's Mental Health System: Literature Review
This document serves as a literature review of the larger report, A Strategic Plan to Increase the Flow of Minority, Bilingual and Culturally Competent Professional Social Workers into California’s Mental Health System. It was prepared by the Center for Social Services Research at the University of California, Berkeley, and was funded by The California Endowment. |
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A Strategic Plan to Increase the Flow of Minority, Bilingual and Culturally Competent Professional Social Workers into California’s Mental Health System: report on sources of financial aid for
This report focuses on Sources of Financial Aid for Social Work Students in Mental Health and serves as a complementary document to A Strategic Plan to Increase the Flow of Minority, Bilingual and Culturally Competent Professional Social Workers into California’s Mental Health System report. It was prepared by the Center for Social Services Research at the University of California, Berkeley, and funded by The California Endowment. |
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Integrating Mental Health Services Into California's Diverse Neighborhoods
With the field of mental health undergoing transformation due to Prop. 63/Mental Health Services Act, family-strengthening organizations across California are forming new partnerships. This policy brief from the California Family Resource Association presents CFRA's Guidelines for Strong Community-Based Mental Health Programs. It also features model mental health programs that family-strengthening organizations are delivering in communities across California. |
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Using Mental Health Services Act - Proposition 63 Funding for Juvenile Justice Youth
This brief explains how counties may consider using Prop. 63/MHSA
Prevention and Early Intervention funding for youth involved with the
juvenile justice system. It was prepared by Fight Crime: Invest in Kids,
a bipartisan, anti-crime organization led by over 350 California
sheriffs, police chiefs, district attorneys and victims of violence. The
brief also describes how several counties deliver services to juvenile
offenders using funding from the Community Services and Supports
component of the MHSA. |
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Report Addresses Mental Health Needs of Children in Foster Care System
Los Angeles is home to the largest child welfare system in the country, accounting for one in 10 foster children nationwide. In May 2006, the Children's Law Center of Los Angeles, with support from The California Endowment, organized the Foster Youth Mental Health Summit at the Center for Healthy Communities. This report, Making Reform Real: Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Children in the Dependency System summarizes the discussion and recommendations developed at the summit and recommendations to improve the foster care system in L.A. -- and the rest of the state. |
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Proyecto Salud Libre: An Assessment of the Mental Health Needs in Imperial County's Communities
This report, funded by The California Endowment, examines the mental health needs of the mostly rural population of Imperial County, located in the southeastern most corner of California. Clinicas de Salud del Pueblo, the region's major community clinic system, conducted a formal and systematic needs assessment after years of anecdotal evidence, clinical observations pointed to unmet mental health needs in the area. |
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A Review of Lessons Learned from the Mental Health Initiative
These case studies, theme papers and evaluation reflect the lessons learned from The California Endowment's Mental Health Initiative by capturing the work of the Initiative's grantees:Meeting Goals, Sharing Strengths: An Evaluation of The California Endowment’s Mental Health Initiative |
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A Review of Lessons Learned from the Mental Health Initiative
Case Study -- Building Blocks: A Preschool-Based Early Intervention Program Integration of Mental Health Services |
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A Review of Lessons Learned from the Mental Health Initiative
Case Study --Community Gateways and Family Healing Circle Illustrations of Culturally Competent Practices and Delivery Methods |
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A Review of Lessons Learned from the Mental Health Initiative
Case Study -- River Oak’s Early Intervention Foster Support Program Effective Service Delivery Strategies for Children |
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A Review of Lessons Learned from the Mental Health Initiative
Case Study -- Collaboration and Network Building with Other Systems of Care |
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A Review of Lessons Learned from the Mental Health Initiative
Case Study -- Tumi Ma (Giving Power): Successfully Overcoming Implementation Barriers Using Innovative Strategies |
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A Review of Lessons Learned from the Mental Health Initiative
Case Study -- Education, Resources, Empowerment and Skills (Project ERES): The Challenge of Overcoming Stigma |
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A Review of Lessons Learned from the Mental Health Initiative
Theme Paper: Culturally Competent Evaluation Methods |
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A Review of Lessons Learned from the Mental Health Initiative
Theme Paper: Work Force Development Strategies |
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Mental Health Symposium on Prevention and Early Intervention
This report provides a summary and recommendations of a June 2005 symposium on mental health prevention and early intervention. |
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From Promise to Practice: Mental Health Models that Work for Children and Youth
Prepared by Fight Crime Invest in Kids, this toolkit emphasizes the meeting of mental health and related needs of children and youth in the foster care and juvenile justice systems. |
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A Prescription for Crime Prevention: Improving Youth Access to Effective Mental Health Approaches (2002)
Prepared by Fight Crime Invest in Kids, this report reviews promising and proven approaches to treatment for kids at high risk for juvenile delinquency. |
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Evidence-Based Practices in Mental Health Services for Foster Youth
This report reviews mental health services for foster children, other mental health research to identify those most relevant to foster youth and highlight practices that may best meet the needs of our communities. |
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Build The Field and They Will Come: Multicultural Organizational Development for Mental Health Agencies
This handbook -- prepared by Antioch University, Santa Barbara, Child Abuse Listening & Mediation, Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara, and the University of California, Santa Barbara -- can help community-based organizations increase the cultural competency of their mental health services and promote lasting organizational change by reforming and/or revitalizing their agency structures and taking steps to enhance the multicultural competence of their personnel. |
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In Harm's Way: Aiding Children Exposed to Trauma
Funded in part by The California Endowment, the report In Harm's Way: Aiding Children Exposed to Trauma focuses on the needs of children exposed to trauma, strategies for early identification and intervention, and ensuring the provision of timely and appropriate services to them and their caregivers. |
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Breaking Down the Barriers to Service
The California Endowment launched its $24 million Special Opportunities in Mental Health Funding Initiative in 2001 to gain greater understanding of the barriers that limit effective mental health services in California and find innovative ways to cross those barriers. This document describes the Mental Health Funding Initiative, its grantees and its early lessons learned. |
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The Mental Health Workforce: Who's Meeting California's Needs 2003
Funded by The California Endowment and the California HealthCare Foundation, this publication examines the mental and behavioral health work force in California to better understand the role it plays in access to mental and behavioral health care. It calls attention to the supply and demand for mental health professionals and provides recommendations regarding work force planning, care delivery, regulation, education and future study. |
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National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Health Care for Our Troubled Youth: Provision of services in the Foster Care and Juvenile Justice Systems of California (2002)
Provides a background scan of the foster care and juvenile justice systems, health issues among these populations, and offers recommendations for policy, programs and research. |
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The Inmate Exception (2002)
Commissioned by The California Endowment, this report explores the 'inmate' limitations on Medicaid for children in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems by examining Federal legislation, as well as State and county practices, in order to offer policy recom- mendations. |
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Bringing Communities Together for Wellness
The "Bringing Communities Together for Wellness," a joint project of The Islamic Center of San Diego and San Diego State University's Center for Behavioral & Community Health Studies, provides an assessment of the mental health needs among the area's Middle Eastern, North African and East African populations. |
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Dignity Denied: The Price for Imprisoning Older Women in California
"Dignity Denied: The Price for Imprisoning Older Women in California," a report funded in part by The California Endowment, examines the conditions of confinement for older women imprisoned in California, their health and safety concerns as well as strategies to improve their health and well-being. |
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Impact of Permanent Supportive Housing on the Use of Acute Care Health Services by Homeless Adults
This study, funded in part by The California Endowment, "examined the impact of permanent supportive housing on the use of acute care public health services by homeless people with mental illness, substance use disorder, and other disabilities." |
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The Public Health Dimensions of Prisoner Reentry: Addressing the Health Needs and Risks of Returning Prisoners and their Families
Compiled by the Urban Institute Justice Policy Center, this report examines the public health dimensions of the reintegration of more than 125,000 individuals who leave California prisons and return home each year. |
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