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Board approves new Sacramento County Behavioral Health Commission, dissolves separate mental‑health and alcohol‑drug advisory boards
Summary
The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved creation of a consolidated Sacramento County Behavioral Health Commission to advise the county on mental‑health, substance‑use and crisis response, replacing the separate Mental Health Board and Alcohol and Drug Advisory Board.
The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to form a Sacramento County Behavioral Health Commission, consolidating the county’s Mental Health Board and the Alcohol and Drug Advisory Board into a single advisory body to meet requirements in California law and Proposition 1.
Ryan Quist, director of Sacramento County Behavioral Health Services, told the board the combined commission is intended to ensure coordinated guidance across mental-health, substance‑use and crisis‑response systems. Quist said the proposal grew from a year of joint work with members of the two existing advisory boards and county counsel to meet welfare and institutions code requirements and the voter‑approved Behavioral…
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