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State shifts prevention to CDPH under Prop 1; counties and community programs warn of lost locally led services
Summary
At a Commission for Behavioral Health panel, state and county officials, managed‑care and community providers described how the Behavioral Health Services Act centralizes population‑based prevention at CDPH and asked the commission to press for clearer guidance to avoid losing community‑driven prevention programs.
The Commission for Behavioral Health on Day 2 of its January meeting held a panel on population‑based prevention under the Behavioral Health Services Act (BHSA), where public health officials, managed‑care representatives and county and community providers warned that the shift from county‑run Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) work to a statewide model risks disrupting locally driven programs.
Trudy Raimondo of the California Department of Public Health, who is helping lead the BHSA prevention effort at CDPH, described the agency’s approach as statewide and data‑driven. “When we talk about population‑based prevention, we’re thinking about the entire state, the entire population or subsets of the population,” Raimondo said, framing CDPH’s role as coordinating promotion, universal and selective prevention and building shared…
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