“Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care.”-Theodore Roosevelt During the 2023 Children’s Mental Health Winter Advocacy Day, guest speaker Erin Raftery Ryan, Executive Director of NAMI Westside LA, aptly quoted this profound statement, setting
The California State Auditor performed an audit of the Department of Health Care Services and the Department of Managed Health Care. The report shows that children enrolled in Medi‑Cal face challenges in accessing behavioral health care. The State Auditor “determined that the departments
The California Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Children Now, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness California are proud to host the Annual Winter Advocacy and Collaboration Conference. You are warmly invited to participate in this opportunity to: ~Learn
As a follow-up from last week, CSAP submitted a letter in opposition to the California Medical Board of California (MBC) regarding their proposed regulations to reestablish the Diversion Program, echoing suggestions of the California Medical Association, which includes the following concerns: There are at least
One-third of homeless veterans live in California. Newsom is backing a new plan to help them Shifting how California funds its mental health system is critical to getting more people off the streets Medical debt is being wiped from many
CSAP has heard from a lot of you all around the state regarding new regulations being promulgated by the Medical Board of California. Rest assured, CSAP is tracking this, and coordinating with the California Medical Association to submit comments by the
As the enactment of SB 43 (Eggman) sinks in, this question is being asked a lot. We want to kick off the Newsletter this week by reminding everyone that, for starters, the State still has money appropriated in previous budget cycles for
