Mission Statement for Select Committee on Alcohol and Drug ...
Mission Statement for Select Committee on Mental Health
It is the mission of this Select Committee to do the following:
• Identify definitions, best methods and current trends in mental health treatment, access, stigmas and discrimination.
• Document the extent to which mental illness stigmas and discrimination influences the State of California and its local governments.
• Identify the extent to which mental health influences state and local finances, and impacts the services across all state departments.
• Develop a comprehensive vision and direction for the state to mental health in a comprehensive and coordinated manner across all State departments.
• Produce a description of the extent to which mental health affects every state agency and department.
• Produce a response from each of those agencies and departments to the mental health problems as they affect their systems of care.
• Produce a clear definition of the nature of mental illness, the scientific foundation underlying that definition, and the extent to which the state's current response reflects that science.
• Ensure all insurance plans operating in California fully implement and are compliant with mental health parity as defined by the federal parity law passed in 2008 and state healthcare reform legislation, and federal regulations currently being considered.
• Produce a series of policy recommendations to help the state move to a comprehensive, coordinated plan for addressing issues with mental health services, and those living with mental illness.
• Reduce California's prison population by developing recommendations to more efficiently and effectively serve mentally ill inmates, parolees and those at risk.
• Develop a plan to enroll those individuals living with a mental illness who are released from prison into the newly created Medi-Cal expansion plan.
• Produce a vision to help guide the state in addressing insufficiencies with mental health services.
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