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MEMBERS NEWSLETTER
May 24, 2018
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Our  CAREER CENTER   is now open!

Current openings:
Mental Health Therapist , Tarzana Treatment Centers
Therapist , South Coast Community Services

Looking for a career in behavioral health?
CBHA offers a list of current employment opportunities at various non-profit organizations statewide.
Interested in promoting your behavioral health opportunity? Use our career center!

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SPRING POLICY FORUM MEMBERSHIP LUNCHEON SURVEY                     
During the Spring Policy Forum in April, members were asked to share their agency’s current top pressing issue in one or two words. These were the answers our members shared.

As you can see, workforce continues to be one of the top priorities for our members. In response, CBHA created a Workforce Development Work Group last year and will continue to discuss solutions to the many challenges agencies face surrounding their workforce. 

Has your agency tried something new that has improved workforce recruitment, retention or training? Please let us know, so that we can share it with other members.
Email Sara Kahoalii at skahoalii@cccbha.org
Access Integrated Care 1
County Accountability 2
County Rates 2
Equitable Service Provision 1
Evidence Based Practices 1
Housing 2
Innovations 1
Mergers 1
Paperwork 1
QI Outcomes 2
Racial & Ethnic Disparities 2
Risk Management 1
Sanctuary Cities 1
State Oversight (Including CBO) 2
Workforce 4
Workforce and EHR 1
Workforce Competitive Salary 1
Workforce Development 1
Workforce Psychiatry Shortage 2
Workforce Staff Recruitment 2
Workforce Staff Retention 3
Workforce Staff Training 2
Workforce Supporting Transition to Manager 1
Total 37
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May 31 | 1 PM

A presentation from the Crisis Text Line, and from Didi Hirsch, one of our member agencies who run several crisis lines, including the National Suicide Prevention Hotline. Elizabeth Eddy, Director of Communications, will share on the Crisis Text Line program and how agencies are using this option as a way to be more accessible in a technology driven society. Our member agency will share their experience running a program and navigating the funding and staffing needs required to be effective. If you are considering a crisis line at your agency or want to collect resources to use at your agency, please join us.

Representing the oldest suicide prevention center in the country,  Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services’ Training Coordinator, Nathan Lichtman , will share their crisis call center and suicide prevention model. SIGN UP NOW!
This All County Information Notice and Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Services (MHSUDS) Information Notice provides Child Welfare Departments, Juvenile Probation Departments, Mental Health Plans (MHPs), community/tribal partners, and other providers and stakeholders with the California Integrated Core Practice Model (ICPM), and the California Integrated Training Guide (ITG).
The ICPM provides practical guidance and direction to support county child welfare, juvenile probation, MHPs, and their partners reflective of current best practices for the delivery of timely, effective, and collaborative services to children, youth, non-minor dependents, and families. The ITG provides information and resources to assist counties in developing best practices for implementing training programs and technical assistance that will improve, and sustain, integrated and family-centered teaming approaches.

Click here to see all prior year MHSUDS Information Notices, ADP Bulletins, MH Information Notices and MH Letters. 
GRANT SOLICITATION
The Bureau of Justice Assistance has just released the FY18 Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (JMHCP) grant solicitation (“the federal MIOCRA”).   Please use the link below to access the solicitation and note that applications are due by May 29 th , 2018:
Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program https://www.bja.gov/funding/JMHCP18.pdf
There are 3 different categories:
Collaborative County Approaches to Reducing the Prevalence of Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses in Jails
  • Grant amount: Up to $300,000 for jurisdictions with populations fewer than 100,000, up to $400,000 for jurisdictions with populations between 100,000 and 499,999, and up to $500,000 for jurisdictions with populations of 500,000 or more. Project period: 24 months.
Strategic Planning for Law Enforcement and Mental Health Collaboration
  • Grant amount: Up to $100,000. Project period: 12 months. 
Implementation and Expansion
  • Grant amount: Up to $750,000. Project period: 36 months. 
Please note that the total maximum award for all award categories has been increased to amounts up to $750,000 (over a 3 year period). 

Note from CBHA staff: An updated fiscal reporting tool from the MHSOAC that can provide information your county trends in revenue, expenditure, and closing balance is linked. Additionally, you can find data pertaining to prudent reserve and expenditures on MHSA programs from other funding categories. This can help you in your advocacy efforts at the local level.  

The update includes data reported in the MHSA Revenue and Expenditure Reports (RERs) for Fiscal Years 2015-16 and 2016-17. It also provides new time study graphs. The time-study graphs allow users to view county and statewide trends in revenue, expenditure, and closing balance. Additionally, users can now view data pertaining to prudent reserve and expenditures on MHSA programs from other funding categories, as reported in the RERs.

The Fiscal Reporting Website can be accessed directly on the MHSOAC website by clicking “Fiscal Reporting” under the “Quick Links” section of the right-side navigation.

For questions about the tool, please contact Brian Sala or Brandon McMillen .
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS IN CALIFORNIA
On May 14th, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released a funding opportunity announcement for fiscal year 2018 Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) Expansion Grants. SAMHSA anticipates awarding 25 eligible providers up to $2,000,000 annually to increase access to and improve the quality of community behavioral health services through the expansion of CCBHCs. CCBHCs and community behavioral health providers in states that participated in the CCBHC planning year are eligible to apply. These states include: AK, CA, CO, CT, IA, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OK, OR, PA, RI, TX and VA. Applications are due July 9, 2018 . For a program description and details on eligibility click here .
WATCH Rusty Selix present the 'Rusty Selix Award of Merit', posthumously to Leslie Preston, La Clinica dedla Raza. Jane Garcia, CEO of La Clinica de la Raza, accepted the award for Leslie Preston.
The California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals (CCAPP) announced Friday that it will begin offering coursework for addiction professionals who wish to become Certified Alcohol and Drug Treatment Executives (CTE).
This training strives to assist executives and aspiring executives with training and development that will strengthen the addiction industry, create increased consumer protection for addiction clients, and...
The $34M nonprofit organization Caminar has announced its acquisition of Healthy Partnerships' behavioral health programs in Solano County. The move positions Caminar, which offers behavioral health and supportive services in Solano County and in four other Northern California counties, and Healthy Partnerships to address the complex needs of local individuals and families...
San Francisco’s mayor wants to create a special medical team — the first of its kind in the nation — to spread out onto the city’s streets and give homeless people a drug that one expert calls “blindingly effective” at abruptly stopping heroin cravings....
Congress is trying to pass legislation that addresses the opioid crisis in an election year, so they’re moving fast, passing a bill through committee Thursday that would free up Medicaid dollars for opioid addiction treatment in institutionalized...
CBHA Affinity Partners offer approved services that benefit our members while supporting our advocacy efforts.
The California Council of Community Behavioral Health Agencies has partnered with the Unemployment Services Trust (UST) since 2002 to help our members better manage their unemployment claims, ensure HR compliance and streamline day-to-day operations. Providing nonprofits with workforce solutions that reduce costs and strengthen their missions, UST provides its members up to 60% in savings, and offers exclusive access to the following services:

  • Funding Options—includes Self-Funded Reserve and Unemployment Insurance
  • Unemployment Claims Administration Services
  • Expert Unemployment Hearing Representation
  • E-Filing Capabilities for Managing Claims Details
  • Thousands of Downloadable HR Forms, Documents and Templates
  • Live HR Hotline, Employee Handbook Builder and 200+ Online Training Courses
  • Award-Winning Outplacement & Career Transition Services

Regardless of your nonprofit's sector, size or location, one of UST's recently revamped programs can be an invaluable solution to your ongoing pain points... helping you to refocus your funding and employee bandwidth on the communities you serve. Need more information? If your organization has 10+ employees, contact a dedicated UST cost advisor at 888-249-4788 or get a free Unemployment Cost Analysis today. You can also sign up for UST’s eNewsletter to get invitations to nonprofit-only webinars, how-to guides, eBooks and research.
Welcome to our new Business Associate!
We appreciate our Business Associates for their partnerships that both provide our members exceptional services and sponsor our advocacy efforts.

RELIAS : Changes to STRTP Staff Training Requirements 
Along with the accreditation mandate, Continuum of Care Reform efforts include increased direct care staff training requirements for Short-Term Residential Treatment Programs (STRTP). New hires are required to complete 24 hours of training and 40 hours are required annually. The annual training cannot all be completed in-house; 20 hours must be done by an entity other than the STRTP. 
Relias is an approved provider by the state and can help you with these and other mandates. We provide clients with training on valuable topics such as: 
• Trauma-informed care
• Cultural competence
• Working with children and youth
• Diagnoses and interventions specific to children and adolescents
• Early childhood activities, development, and many more...
In addition to accreditation support tools, the Relias accreditation department has created a CA-specific training crosswalk that clients can use to map Relias courses to STRTP staff training standards. 
Talk to a Relias representative about how we can help you meet these regulations and we’ll send you our CA-specific STRTP training crosswalk.
VALANT : Providers extend empathy toward their patients, but an over-extension of one's capacities can lead to problems. Compassion fatigue is a significant problem in the behavioral healthcare industry. Under certain circumstances, it can even have ethical or legal implications. Preventing the onset of compassion fatigue is a matter of creating and sticking to an effective prevention strategy. In our blog post," How to Prevent Compassion Fatigue"we cover five important steps in doing so. Click here to read more!