Creating Common Ground: Advancing Equity in Mental Health Outcomes through Upstream Community Prevention in California

In partnership with California Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (MHSOAC), Prevention Institute is implementing Creating Common Ground: Advancing Equity in Mental Health Outcomes through Upstream Community Prevention in California. Specific activities will include conversations with key stakeholders, regional dialogues, and convenings. to support development of recommendations to the MHSOAC on how to sustain long-term systems change that allows for implementation and funding of community defined evidence practice on a broader scale.

The goal of this project is to build a shared vision for moving prevention and innovation further upstream. With a focus on upstream community prevention and using a health and racial equity lens, Prevention Institute will engage county behavioral health and community partners to build the capacity of local and statewide partners, including advocates and county departments of behavioral health to advance the shared vision, and develop a set of recommendations for the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission to incorporate the vision into long term systems change.

Subject Matter Experts and Stakeholders:

 

Fresno County Department of Behavioral Health:

Ahmad Bahrami

 

Safe Passages:

Josefina Alvarado Mena

 

Advocates for Human Potential - MHSOAC Cultural and Linguistic Competence Committee:

Dr. Luis Garcia

 

Racial Ethnic Mental Health Disparities Coalition - MHSOAC Cultural and Linguistic Competence Committee:

Jim Gilmer

 

San Mateo County Department of Public Health:

Jei Africa

 

San Diego Community Health Improvement Partners:

Dana Richardson

 

Alameda County Department of Behavioral Health:

Tracy Hazelton

 

California Behavioral Health Directors Association:

Michelle Cabrera

Elia Gallardo

Elissa Feld

 

California Pan-Ethnic Health Network:

Carolina Valle

Alej Fernandez

 

California Office of Health Equity:

Marina Agosto

Sosha Marasigan-Quintero

Cullen Fowler-Riggs

 

Tri-City Mental Health Authority:

Rimmi Hundal

 

Butte County Behavioral Health:

HolliDrobny

 

San Diego Behavioral Health Services:

Piedad Garcia

 

The Children’s Partnership - Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission:

Mayra Alvarez

 

Sutter Health:

Jodi Nerell

 

Center for Sexuality & Gender Diversity, Bakersfield, CA:

Anne-Natasha Pinckney

 

Hmong Cultural Center of Butte County, Oroville, CA:

Seng Yang

 

Humanidad Therapy & Education Services, Santa Rosa, CA:

Nubia Padilla

 

Two Feathers Native American Family Services, McKinleyville, CA:

Dr. Virgil Moorehead

 

Racial Ethnic Mental Health Disparities Coalition:

Stacie Hiramoto