The Special Projects Team supports a range of statewide, regional and local efforts, focused on hot topics in mental health and substance use services.
The Leadership Institute is a leadership development program designed to help good leaders become effective system leaders and innovators in public behavioral health and related health systems. Transformational system leadership is essential to improve the quality and experience of care that results in better outcomes and lower costs.
Through a contract with the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, the California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions (CIBHS) is leading a statewide project, directed by legislation, to engage counties, providers, and stakeholders in an effort to establish consensus, and train to, California statewide clinical assessment guidelines for involuntary detainment (in various settings) that are person-centered, family driven/inclusive, culturally responsive and recovery oriented to improve the consumer experience.
CIBHS provides Crisis Intervention Training. Crisis Intervention Team CIT programs throughout the United States and in other nations worldwide promote and support collaborative efforts to create and sustain more effective interactions among law enforcement, mental health care providers, individuals with mental illness, their families and communities and also to reduce the stigma of mental illness.
For more information on this important training, please contact Khani Gustafson.
This exciting program honors culture and challenges stigma through the power of art and creativity.
All across California, people harness the healing power of the creative spirit – celebrating their cultures, challenging stigmas and stereotypes, working towards recovery one brushstroke at a time.
