BHSA requires counties to gather input on their entire continuum of care from clients and partners. Sacramento County BHS seeks input from recipients of Mental Health and/or Substance Use Prevention and Treatment services, as well as from family members and caretakers of recipients. We actively engage community partners to ensure diverse voices are heard. Your voice helps shape the future of Behavioral Health Services — because real change starts with community input.
Through the CPP, we are working to shine light on strengths while also identifying unmet needs, service gaps, and opportunities for growth.
What’s happening now?
BHS has launched a multi-step approach to collect input for the first BHSA Integrated Plan, a three-year program and expenditure plan for the first three fiscal years of BHSA implementation (July 2026 – June 2029). In Phase 1, we advertised meetings and consulted with hundreds of clients and partners to gather their thoughts on the topic of Glows and Grows of BHS – what are positive practices and where is there room for improvement?
Phase 2 of the Community Planning Process took place in November 2025, when BHS reconnected with the community to validate Phase 1 input and collect additional feedback to guide the process.
The BHSA Community Planning Process Phase 1 Report contains a summary analysis of community feedback followed by all feedback received in Phase 1 of this community planning process. During Phase 2, we had public meetings with interested community members and presented BHSA Community Conversations Phase 2: Validation, containing this summary and our understanding of key points, as well as changes happening in the behavioral health system of care in Sacramento County as a result of the passage of BHSA. Additional feedback was requested. We are currently sorting and analyzing the additional feedback gathered; it will be shared here once this is done.
We appreciate your involvement in Phases 1 and 2 of the Behavioral Health Services Act (BHSA) Community Planning Process. You can receive updates regarding Behavioral Health Services and upcoming Behavioral Health Commission meetings by joining the BHS Distribution List.
Sacramento Behavioral Health Commission (BHC)
Sacramento County has a new Behavioral Health Commission, with appointees from each district. Meetings are on the 3rd Thursday of each month and are open to the public.
Integrated Plan/Annual Updates
Each Fiscal Year, BHS will be releasing an Integrated Plan and/or an Annual Update to report on the entire BHS Behavioral Health Services continuum of services and show our county’s plans for the future. These will be posted to the BHS Reports & Workplans page.
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