CARE Act Working Group

About

The Community Assistance, Recovery & Empowerment (CARE) Act creates a new pathway to deliver mental health and substance use disorder services to the most severely impaired Californians who too often suffer in homelessness or incarceration without treatment. The purpose of the CARE Act Working Group is to provide coordination and on-going engagement with, and support collaboration among, relevant state and local partners and other stakeholders throughout the phases of county implementation to support the successful implementation of the CARE Act.

For additional information:

To join the CARE Act listserv, please contact CAREAct@chhs.ca.gov.

Members

Amber Irvine – San Diego County Behavioral Health
Beau Hennemann – Anthem Blue Cross
Brenda Grealish – Commission for Behavioral Health
Bill Stewart – San Diego County Behavioral Health Advisory Board
Dr. Brian Hurley – Substance Abuse Prevention and Control (SAPC), Los Angeles Department of Public Health
Dr. Clayton Chau– National Healthcare & Housing Advisors
Deb Roth – Disability Rights California
Harold Turner – NAMI Urban Los Angeles
Herb Hatanaka – Special Services for Groups
Dr. Katherine Warburton – Department of State Hospitals
Hon. Maria Hernandez – Superior Court of Orange Count
Ian Kemmer – Orange County Health Care Agency
Ivan Bhardwaj – California Department of Health Care Services, Behavioral Health
Jenny Bayardo – California Behavioral Health Planning Council
Jennifer Bender – Riverside County Public Defender Office
Jerry May – San Jose Fire Department, Local 230
Jill Nielsen – San Francisco Human Services Agency
Jodi Nerell – Sutter Health
Kent Boes – Colusa County Board of Supervisors
Keris Jän Myrick – Person with Lived Experience of Schizophrenia Diagnosis
Ketra Carter – Homelessness Strategies and Solutions Department, City of San Diego
Lauren Rettagliata – Family Member
Mark Salazar – Mental Health Association of San Francisco
Meagan Subers – California Professional Firefighters
Monica Morales – Yolo County Behavioral Health Services
Roberto Herrera – California Department of Veterans Affairs
Ruben Imperial – Stanislaus County
Ruqayya Ahmad – California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
Salena Chow – Judicial Council of California
Sarah Jarman – Homelessness Strategies and Solutions Department, San Diego Housing Commission
Stephanie Regular – Alameda County Public Defender Office
Stephanie Welch – California Health and Human Services Agency
Susan Holt – Fresno County Behavioral Health
Tawny Macedo – California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency
Tim Lutz – Sacramento County Health Services
Zachary Olmstead – California Department of Housing and Community Development