Data Explainer Series


CalMHSA is hosting an educational series through Sept. 30 to support counties in advancing California’s statewide behavioral health goals and population-level measures under the Behavioral Health Services Act. The webinars and corresponding office hours will help counties incorporate these goals into Integrated Plans and strengthen data-informed strategies that improve population health outcomes. Please note: Live participation in the series is only for county behavioral health staff.

Visit this web page for links to recordings of each webinar, printable resource materials, and data dashboards as they are developed.

Each week’s offering will focus on one or a related grouping of statewide goals and measures and examine them through:

  • Webinars (Tuesdays, 12-1 p.m.): Focused on understanding the data, including statewide performance metrics, system context, and county health equity and disparity considerations
  • Office Hours (Fridays, 12-1 p.m.): A collaborative, open forum for discussion and cross-county learning

 

Contents

Webinars & Office Hours

Date

Topic

Downloads

July 29 | Webinar

Introduction to Statewide Goals & Access to Care

Recording | Slides

August 1 | Office Hours

Introduction to Statewide Goals & Access to Care

Slides

August 5 | Webinar

Homelessness

Recording | Slides

August 8 | Office Hours

Homelessness

Slides

August 12 | Webinar

Justice-Involvement

Recording| Slides

August 15 | Office Hours

Justice-Involvement

Slides

August 19 | Webinar

Removal of Children from the Home

Recording | Slides

August 22 | Office Hours

Removal of Children from the Home

Slides

August 26 | Webinar

Overdoses and Suicides

Recording | Slides

August 29 | Office Hours

Overdoses and Suicides

Slides

September 2 | Webinar

Untreated Behavioral Health Conditions & Co-Occurring Physical Health Conditions

Recording | Slides

September 5 | Office Hours

Untreated Behavioral Health Conditions & Co-Occurring Physical Health Conditions

September 9 & 12

Care Experience, Quality of Life, Social Connection

September 15 & 19

Engagement in School and Work

September 23 & 26

Institutionalization

September 30

Collaborating with Local Planning Processes

Data Dashboards

Statewide Behavioral Health Goals – Access to Care: This Access to Care Dashboard provides an overview of all measures included in this goal, including NSMHS, SMHS, DMC/DMC-ODS, and IET-INI, for each county in California. The dashboard includes equity data for each measure, where it is available.

Statewide Behavioral Health Goals – Homelessness: This Homelessness Dashboard provides an overview of all measures included in this goal, including PIT count of people experiencing homelessness, PIT count of people experiencing homelessness with SUD or SMI, K-12 public school students experiencing homelessness, and rates of people who accessed homelessness services for each county or continuum of care region in California. The dashboard includes equity data for each measure, where it is available.

Statewide Behavioral Health Goals – Justice-Involvement: This Justice-Involvement Dashboard provides an overview of all measures included in this goal, including adult and juvenile arrest rates, adult recidivism conviction rates, and rates of people found Incompetent to Stand Trial (IST) for each county in California. The dashboard includes equity data for each measure, where it is available.

Statewide Behavioral Health Goals – Removal of Children from Home: This Removal of Children from Home Dashboard provides an overview of all measures included in this goal, including children in foster care PIT Count (rate per 100,000), open child welfare case SMHS penetration rates, and child maltreatment substantiations (incidence per 1,000 children) for each county in California. The dashboard includes equity data for each measure, where it is available.

Statewide Behavioral Health Goals – Overdoses & Suicides: This Overdoses and Suicides Dashboard provides an overview of all measures included in these additional goals, including all drug-related overdose death rates, rates of emergency department (ED) visits due to non-fatal, drug-related overdoses, suicide death rates, and rates of non-fatal ED visits due to self-harm for each county in California. The dashboard includes equity data for each measure, where it is available.

Statewide Behavioral Health Goals – Priority Goal Untreated Behavioral Health Conditions and Additional Goal Prevention & Treatment of Co-Occurring Physical Conditions: This Untreated BH and Prevention/Treatment of Co-Occurring PH Conditions Dashboard provides an overview of all measures included in these goals for each county in California. Untreated BH conditions measures include follow-up after emergency department (ED) visits for substance use (FUA30), follow-up after ED visits for mental illness (FUM30), and adults that needed help for emotional/mental health problems or use of alcohol/drugs who had no visits with a provider in the past year. Prevention & treatment of co-occurring physical health conditions includes adults’ access to preventive/ambulatory health service (AAP-Tot), child and adolescent well-care visits (WCV), diabetes screening for people with Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder who are using antipsychotic medications (SSD), and metabolic monitoring and children and adolescents on antipsychotic blood glucose and cholesterol testing (APM-BC). The dashboard includes equity data for each measure, where it is available, along with data by managed care plan for HEDIS measures.

 

BHT Planning Documents

Visit and bookmark this link to download important tools, like the BHSA Integrated Plan template, the County Population-Level BH Measure Workbook, and the Phase 1 County Performance Workbook Measure Access Instructions: