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Kings County approves MHSA annual update for 2025–26; no county general fund cost
Summary
The Kings County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the county Behavioral Health department's Mental Health Services Act annual update for fiscal year 2025–26 and authorized submission to the state; the plan carries no cost to the county general fund and budgets $10,128,878 for FY 2025'026.
Brenda Tamayo Pagan, Mental Health Services Act program manager for Kings County Behavioral Health, presented the department's 2025'026 MHSA (Mental Health Services Act) annual update and asked the Board of Supervisors to approve the document for submission to the California Department of Health Care Services.
The update, she said, includes the 2023'024 Prevention and Early Intervention evaluation and the annual Innovative Project report and reflects a community planning process facilitated by Veil Corp that included 38 focus-group participants, eight key-stakeholder interviews and 244 community surveys. Tamayo Pagan said approximately 8,475 Kings County residents were served by MHSA-funded programs during 2023'024 (the figure…
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