Mental Health Board Meeting
Date: March 20, 2018
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Registration Required: No
The Sonoma County Mental Health Board is an advisory board empowered to listen to the concerns of our constituents and to help formulates policies that offer a consistent continuum of care for all those with mental health challenges. We are further empowered to advise the County Board of Supervisors on the Mental Health System of Care.
The Sonoma County Mental Health Board collaborates with the Mental Health Services Division of the Sonoma County Department of Health Services to increase public and professional awareness of persons with mental health challenges and to help eliminate the stigma attached to those mental illness. We strive to positively impact the mental health system by listening to public input and working with Mental Health Services to create policy that will offer hope to families and individuals living with mental illness.
Webinar Information
- Zoom Webinar:Join Meeting
- Telephone:(669) 900-9128
- Webinar ID: xxx xxxx xxxx
- Passcode: xxxxxx
Written/Email Public Comments
Submit correspondence to the Mental Health Board Secretary Tori Bartholomew no later than five days prior to the meeting. Secretary’s contact info: Tori.Bartholomew@sonoma-county.org, Fax: (707) 565-4892, 2227 Capricorn Way, Suite 207, Santa Rosa, CA 95407
Materials
Materials related to an item on the Agenda submitted to the Mental Health Board after distribution of the agenda packet are available for public inspection in the clerk’s office at 2227 Capricorn Way, Suite 207, Santa Rosa, CA 95407 during normal business hours, 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., weekdays.
Disability Accommodation
If you have a disability which requires an accommodation or an alternative format to assist you in observing and commenting on this meeting, please contact the Clerk of the Mental Health Board at (707) 565-4854 or by email DHS-MHB@sonoma-county.org by 12:00 noon, Friday, before the meeting, to ensure arrangements for accommodation.
Agenda
5:00 p.m. CALL TO ORDER & ROLL CALL
5:05 p.m. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING(S) – February 20, 2018
5:10 p.m. PATIENTS’ RIGHTS ADVOCATE REPORT – Tamara Winer
5:20 p.m. CONSUMER AFFAIRS REPORT - Consumer news, issues, concerns – Kate Roberge / Amy Breckenridge
5:30 p.m. SPECIAL PRESENTATION: Overview of Sonoma County Department of Health Services,Behavioral Health Division’s Budgetary Challenges, (Presenters Barbie Robinson, DHS Director, and Rod Stroud, DHS Assistant Director)
5:50 p.m. BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DIRECTOR’S REPORT
6:10 p.m. Mental Health System Transformation – BH Section Managers report on the programs they supervise
6:25 p.m. PEERS COALITION INTERN REPORT on Activities at SRJC
6:35 p.m. OTHER REPORTS (INCLUDING CALBHB/C)
--CALBHB/C Regional
Training for the Bay Area Region in Redwood City, April 20-21, 2018
6:40 p.m. BOARD PLANNING
--Working
Retreat, April 28, 2018
6:45 p.m. MHB CHAIR’S REPORT/Committee Reports
6:50 p.m. BOARD Discussion / PUBLIC COMMENTS on items not on the agenda (Please limit to 3 minutes per speaker)
6:55 p.m. WRAP-UP
7:00 p.m. ADJOURNMENT
Public Comments
You may email public comment to DHS-MHB@sonoma-county.org no later than five days prior to the meeting. All emailed public comments will be forwarded to all Board Members. During the meeting, if you have joined as a member of the public in the Zoom app or by calling in, there will be specific points throughout the meeting assigned to public comment.
Reasonable Accommodation
If you have a disability, which requires an accommodation or an alternative format to assist you in observing and commenting on this meeting, please contact the Clerk of the Mental Health Board at (707) 565-4854 or by email DHS-MHB@sonoma-county.org by 12:00 noon the Friday before the meeting to ensure arrangements for accommodation.
Materials
Materials related to an item on the Agenda submitted to the Mental Health Board after distribution of the agenda packet are available for public inspection in the clerk’s office at 2227 Capricorn Way, Suite 207, Santa Rosa, CA 95407 during normal business hours, 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., weekdays.
Additional Information
For information, disability-related modification or accommodation, or to review materials prior to the meeting, please contact Behavioral Health Program Support, Department of Health Services, 2227 Capricorn Way, Suite 207 (mailing), Santa Rosa, CA 95407 (707) 565-4850, DHS-MHB@sonoma-county.org