Supervisors should heed Grand Jury warning that $100 million-a-year program is ‘fragmented and unresponsive’
“Alameda County residents witness daily the inadequacies of our mental health system,” the county Grand Jury concluded.The 20 people who voiced frustrations in a recent Zoom meeting represented a fraction of the membership of Alameda County FASMI — Families Advocating for the Seriously Mentally Ill. “Everybody here has skin in the game,” said Katy Polony, co-founder of this group whose members have firsthand or secondhand experience with serious mental illness.
Alameda County uses MHSA funds to contract with more than 100 community-based organizations that deliver prevention and treatment services. Alameda County Behavioral Health, the agency which administers the MHSA program, will release a draft spending plan in April. The public will be able to comment before the Board of Supervisors adopts the budget for the next fiscal year.
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