What does that mean to us here in Contra Costa County?
A. The State Department of Mental Health advises counties to start “small and smart” to test new methods to achieve the values of MHSA. We are focusing first on the “transformational” Full Service Partnerships to a limited number of consumers, as well as undertaking a few key Systems Development efforts. We need to pilot these programs, learn lessons from them, and improve them further. Once effectiveness is established in these smaller environments, our longer-term goal is to expand the effective ones throughout our system.
