Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (MHSOAC)
- As of January 2011, the Mental Health Services and Oversight and Accountability Commission (MHSOAC) appropriated more than $742.5 million of PEI funds for all 58 counties.
- An additional $129 was appropriated for statewide PEI efforts for suicide prevention, improving student mental health, and to reduce the stigma and discrimination associated with mental health.
- Approximately at least three quarters of the California counties include one or more programs to address the MHSA objectives such as reducing school failure, incarcerations, and mental health-related stigma and discrimination.
- As of November 2010, the MHSOAC approved 28 Innovation plans for 26 counties, a total of $108,357,624.
Read more about this topic: California Proposition 63 (2004)
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