State Advocacy | 2025

AB 384 (Connolly) Mental Health Protection Act​

• Sample Letter | Fact Sheet
• Status: 2-Year Bill

AB 804 (Wicks) Homelessness: Medi-Cal: housing support

• Sample Letter | Fact Sheet
• Status: 2-Year Bill

SB 531 (Rubio) Student Mental Health Education

• Sample Letter | Fact Sheet
• Organizational Sign-On Letter of Support
• Status: 2-Year Bill

SCR 69 and HR 42 Behavioral Health Awareness Month

• Letter of Support
• ​Status: Adopted 05/27/2025

Budget & Policy Letters

• Behavioral Health Transformation Performance Measures
• California Reducing Disparities Project
• California Warm Line
• ​Mental Health Wellness Act Grants
• Medi-Cal Enrollment Issue for Group Providers 

FEDERAL Advocacy | 2025

Budget Advocacy - Federal Threat to Medi-Cal (2025)
​FACT SHEET: Cuts To Behavioral Health Increase Costs to Californians, April 14, 2025
FACT SHEET: Impact of Proposed Medicaid Cuts, March 7, 2025
PRESS RELEASE: CCBH Urges Congress to Maintain Critical Behavioral Health Services, March 7, 2025
​Letter to Senator Alex Padilla | Letter to Senator Adam B. Schiff​, March 12, 2025
Letter to Congressman David Valadao (CA District 22), February 26, 2025
Letter to Congresswoman Young Kim (CA District 40), February 26, 2025
Letter to Congressman Ken Calvert (CA District 41), February 26, 2025

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2023/2024 Documents

Behavioral Health Continuum

• Local 9-8-8 Response Act (H.R. 4974/S.3444)
• Behavioral Health Beds/Housing Categories Draft August 2024
• CA Behavioral Health - Addressing Long-Standing Barriers and Concerns
• Crisis Care Continuum, California Association of Local Behavioral Health Boards/Commissions, CALBHB/C

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BHSA, BHIBA and Proposition 1

• Proposition 1 Children's Implementation Concerns (CA Alliance)
• CCMH Joint Statement on the BHSA Proposal, July 27, 2023
• Proposition 1 BHIBA and BHSA Summary

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

• Letter Supporting Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities in CDPH projects, May 2024

Housing

• Advocacy Letter - Definition of Homelessness, August 2024

Workforce

• Advocacy Letter - Train New Trainers Fellowship, Letter to HCAI October, 2024
• Behavioral Health Workforce Issue Brief, CALBHB/C, August 2024
• Occupational Therapists as Mental Health Providers, June 2024
• Vocational Rehabilitation Services in BHSA Full Service Partnerships Presentation, June 2024
• Behavioral Health Workforce Presentation, June 2024
• Letter Opposing Workforce Cuts, May 2024
• “Minding the Future: A report on Workforce Challenges in Youth Behavioral Health”, CA Alliance of Child & Family Services, 2023
• “Workforce Needs Assessment Report”, County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California (CBHDA), 2023
• Disparities in Clinical Exam Rates, California Alliance of Child & Family Services, 2023

CAlifornia coalition for mental Health - CCMH - Archive

The California Coalition for Mental Health (CCMH) changed its name to the
​California Coalition for Behavioral Health (CCBH) at its January 2024 Annual Meeting.

CCMH Recommendations on No Place Like Home (NPLH) Draft Program Guidelines - May 2017

Coalition Calls on Lawmakers to Protect, Improve Mental Health Services - ​Op-Ed - February 2017: 

CCMH White Paper - January 2017
​Recommendations to the CA State Legislature to Improve Mental Health for Impacted Californians

• Attachment A - CCMH White Paper: Streamlining Affordable Housing Approvals Trailer Bill Technical Modifications - June 2016
• Attachment B - CCMH White Paper: Recommendations on Ensuring "No Place Like Home" (NPLH) Eligibility
• Cover Letter - February 2017​
• Press Release - February 2017

CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH