Mental Health America
of California
Leading the state of California since 1957, a peer-run organization, meeting communities where they’re at. Join us in empowering Californian’s wellness, healing, and recovery through self-determination.
Mental Health Matters Day
Each year MHAC hosts Mental Health Matters Day in collaboration with our multi-agency planning committee to celebrate May as Mental Health Awareness Month.
Data Shows Serious Mental Illness is not the Cause of Unhoused Population Increase in California
Governor Newsom’s Behavioral Health Modernization Proposal seeks to reduce the number of unhoused people by focusing Mental Health Services Act funds on this population. However, California’s high number of people without homes is primarily a housing affordability and access issue, not a behavioral health crisis. Data shows that California’s Serious Mental Illness (SMI) subpopulation stays relatively stable while there are dramatic decreases and increases in the unhoused population.
Peer Workforce Challenges and Opportunities
People living with a mental health challenge, or peers, deserve access to high quality education and training opportunities, as well as access to good jobs that advance economic mobility. However, individual, environmental, and systemic barriers continue to prevent mental health peers from participating in the workforce.
