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Solano mental health efforts to take steps back with funding cuts
FAIRFIELD Solano County supervisors this week approved an $81.89 million, three-year Mental Health Services Act plan.
There is $30.13 million allocated for the current 2020-21 fiscal year, but the next two years see funding declines.
The 2021-22 allocation is $27.77 million and the 2022-23 allocation is $23.99 million.
The loss of anticipated funding, the board was told, will cut into programs that can help prevent or intercept more serious mental health issues.
For example, the supervisors were told that funding has to be set aside to pay for hospitalization costs, but some of the cuts are in areas that could keep at-risk individuals from having to go into hospitals in the first place.
‘Peer respites’ provide an alternative to psychiatric wards during pandemic
Mia McDermott is no stranger to isolation. Abandoned as an infant in China, she lived in an orphanage until a family in California adopted her as a toddler. She spent her adolescence in boarding schools and early adult years in and out of psychiatric hospitals, where she underwent treatment for bipolar disorder, anxiety and anorexia.
The pandemic left McDermott feeling especially lonely. She restricted social interactions because her fatty liver disease put her at greater risk of complications should she contract covid-19. The 26-year-old Santa Cruz resident stopped regularly eating and taking her psychiatric medications, and contemplated suicide.
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Mia McDermott is no stranger to isolation. Abandoned as an infant in China, she lived in an orphanage until a family in California adopted her as a toddler. She spent her adolescence in boarding schools and early adult years in and out of psychiatric hospitals, where she underwent treatment for bipolar disorder, anxiety and anorexia.
The pandemic left McDermott feeling especially lonely. She restricted social interactions because her fatty liver disease put her at greater risk of complications should she contract COVID-19. The 26-year-old Santa Cruz resident stopped regularly eating and taking her psychiatric medications, and contemplated suicide.
When McDermott’s thoughts grew increasingly dark in June, she checked into Second Story, a mental health program based in a home not far from her own, where she finds nonclinical support in a peaceful environment from people who have faced similar challenges.
–The Mental Health Services Act ‘Innovation” component allows counties the opportunity to test new models and practices that address service gaps and other problems within the local mental health system. These projects are short-term, usually three years. and require extensive community input, data collection, and a thorough evaluation.
An Innovation project is designed mainly to contribute to learning, rather than simply providing a service. It was fitting, then, for the County to partner with a local institution of higher education to examine the efficacy and results of these four projects:
Transition Assistance and Relapse Prevention (TARP) was designed and implemented in the tradition of the Full-Service Partnership (FSP) model of recovery with an emphasis on supported recovery.