Health and Human Services
4440 Department of Mental Health

The California Department of Mental Health, leads the state's mental health system, ensuring the availability and accessibility of effective, efficient, and culturally competent services. Advocacy, education, innovation, outreach, understanding, oversight, monitoring, quality improvement, and the provision of direct services accomplish this mission.

Since department programs drive the need for infrastructure investment, each department has a related capital outlay program to support this need. For the specifics on the Department of Mental Health's Capital Outlay Program see "Infrastructure Overview."
MAJOR PROGRAM CHANGES Back to Top
  • Proposition 83 (Jessica's Law) was approved by voters in the November 2006 General Election and establishes new laws to control sex offenders. By expanding the definition of a sexually violent offense and lowering the current two victim criterion to one victim, Jessica's Law significantly increases the number of case referrals to the DMH. The Governor's Budget includes $28.9 million General Fund in 2006-07 and $53.9 million General Fund in 2007-08 to provide for an increase in Sexually Violent Predators (SVPs) at state hospitals, manage increased SVP evaluations and court testimony, and fund increased administrative costs at Department headquarters and Coalinga State Hospital.

  • The Governor's Budget includes a $5 million increase in Proposition 98 General Fund to augment the Early Mental Health Initiative (EMHI), which provides grants to local education agencies for supportive, non-clinical mental health intervention and prevention services to children (grades K-3) who have mild or moderate school adjustment difficulties. This augmentation will increase total program funding to $15 million in 2007-08.
PROGRAMS Back to Top
The following table presents total proposed budget year positions and expenditures for each budgeted program area. These expenditures include all funding sources that support the state agency's programs.
Code Program
 Proposed
2007-08*
Positions
Dollars
10
 Community Services
249.3
$3,489,904
20
 Long-Term Care Services
10,899.8
1,233,828
35.01
 Administration
149.3
21,755
35.02
 Distributed Administration
-
-21,755
98
 State-Mandated Local Programs
-
-
Totals, Positions and Expenditures (excluding Infrastructure)
11,298.4
$4,723,732
 
 Infrastructure Expenditures
-
38,098
Totals, Positions and All Expenditures
11,298.4
$4,761,830

Refer to the Program Descriptions for a description of programs operated by this state agency.

Refer to the 3-Yr Expenditures & Positions for expenditures, positions, and funding detail.

Refer to the Infrastructure Overview for infrastructure expenditure detail.
PRINTABLE BUDGET DOCUMENTS Back to Top
The following identifies budget documents for this state agency that are available in a printable (pdf) format.

Entire Department of Mental Health Budget (pdf * - 62K) in pdf format.
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of all budget information for this state agency. Note: Along with other information, this document includes the documents listed below.

 Fund Condition Statements ONLY (pdf * - 5K)
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of only the fund condition statements for each fund administered by this state agency.

 Detail of Appropriations and Adjustments ONLY (pdf * - 7K)
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of only the detail of appropriations and adjustments for this state agency.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Back to Top
Legal Citations and Authority
Includes the legal citations (state statutes, federal statutes, and court orders) for operation of department programs and activities.
State Hospital In-Hospital Population (pdf * - 5K)
This table displays the actual or estimated population census for each State hospital facility and psychiatric program on the last Wednesday of each fiscal year and the average population for each fiscal year from Fiscal Year 2003-04 to Fiscal Year 2007-08.