CSAP News

Fed / APA Update 

Ryan Haight Proposed Rule APA has a blog post explaining the two companion proposed rules. View here.  Biden’s FY 2024 Budget Mental health could get a boost from President Biden’s 2024 Budget as part of the administration’s roll out of Certified

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CMA

End of COVID-19 Emergency – What Physicians Need to Know Both the State of California and the federal government will be winding down the public health emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic. California’s State of Emergency (SOE) ended Tuesday, February

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CARE Court

As you may recall, the California Health and Human Services Agency hosted the first CARE Act Working Group meeting on February 14. Both the Working Group meeting presentation and full meeting recording are now available on the CARE Act Working Group webpage.

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Prescribing

Attorney General’s Office Also this week, several members of the CSAP Government Affairs Committee and SYASL advocate Paul Yoder met with basically all of the top brass in the State Attorney General’s Office to discuss current prescribing issues. It was

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Behavioral Health Rights Act

The Steinberg Institute has shared with CSAP and SYASL the language that  they intend to amend into AB 459 (Haney). We have discussed this in previous newsletters: it is an effort to put into state law rights similar conceptually to what

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Mental Health Initiatives 

The Assembly Health Committee and the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services held a status hearing on the numerous California mental health initiatives authorized over the last several years. You may view hearing materials and SYASL staff notes

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Eggman Press Conference, CSAP Shines

This week, CSAP joined Senators Eggman and Wiener, the Big City Mayors Coalition, NAMI California, and others to announce the introduction of legislation to overhaul the State’s behavioral health care system.  CSAP Governmental Affairs Committee Chair, Dr. Emily Wood did an

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