5845.6.
(a) On or before January 1, 2020, the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, in addition to its existing duties, shall establish statewide objectives for the prevention, early intervention, and treatment of mental illness, the promotion of mental health and well-being, and innovation as a strategy for transformational change. In establishing these statewide objectives, the commission shall establish a core set of objectives, ideally no more than five, that serve to bring focus to California's mental health system. The commission may identify a reasonable number of components for each objective.(b) The commission shall establish corresponding metrics for each objective, and may establish metrics for each component. These established metrics shall allow the public to meaningfully understand whether progress is being made against the established objectives.
(c) The commission shall establish a strategy to collect, analyze, and monitor the established metrics, using existing data, if available, and proposing new data collection and reporting strategies, if necessary.
(d) The commission shall establish a strategy for technical assistance, support, and evaluation to support the successful implementation of the objectives, metrics, data collection, and reporting strategy.
(e) The commission shall periodically, but not less than once every five years, review the established objectives, components, if any, metrics, and strategies required under this section.
(f) Consistent with this section, the commission shall also review the outcome and performance monitoring, data collection, and reporting requirements, and other oversight and accountability efforts in existence on January 1, 2019, to see if the commission can streamline those requirements in order to reduce costs, improve the timeliness of relevant data, enhance the utility of reporting for decision-making, and support focus on the statewide objectives established pursuant to this section.
(g) The commission shall work with appropriate stakeholders, subject matter experts, counties, providers, state officials, and others the commission deems necessary in implementing the requirements of this section.
(h) The commission may obtain relevant data and information from other state entities, as needed to assist with monitoring of county progress toward the statewide objectives.
(i) (1) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, each county, beginning January 1, 2021, shall annually submit a report to the commission and to the Legislature, by the end of each fiscal year, that documents the county’s progress toward the statewide objectives, using the metrics described in subdivision (b). The report shall also document mental health funding allocations from Medi-Cal and the Mental Health Services Act in relation to the statewide objectives. A report submitted pursuant to this paragraph shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(2) If a county does not have all the data necessary to produce the report specified in paragraph (1), the county shall instead provide data requested by the commission to assist with the monitoring of county progress towards the statewide objectives.
(3) A county may use Mental Health Services Act funds to comply with the requirements of this section.
(j) This section shall not be construed to require counties to allocate its mental health funding based on the statewide objectives established pursuant to subdivision (a). It is the intent of the Legislature that these statewide objectives work in concert with locally and regionally established goals to improve mental health outcomes statewide.