Clinical

Documentation Guides

New Clinical Documentation Guides Now Available

CalMHSA has updated its Clinical Documentation Guides for Specialty Mental Health Services (SMHS) and Substance Use Disorder Services (SUD) to better serve counties.

The four previous guides have been streamlined into two comprehensive, updated documents—one for SMHS and one for SUD.

These updated guides:

  • Align with current state documentation requirements
  • Simplify and clarify expectations
  • Support consistent, high-quality clinical documentation

Visit the links below to access the updated guides:

Mental Health Services

Substance Use Disorder Services