• SLO County Behavior Health Services completed a nine-month community input and stakeholder planning process to determine best uses of the $2.3 million it will receive from the new Mental Health Services Act (MHSA, formerly Prop. 63).
   
• More than 2,400 stakeholders were involved, including persons with mental illness, family members, service providers and the community at large.
   
• The Community Services and Supports (CSS) Plan, required by the California Dept. of Mental Health, outlines the planning process and use of the funds. 

MHSA funds are available for three types of system programming: 

1. Full Service Partnership Funds provide for whatever it takes intensive services to a small focal population of persons with severe mental illness. (MHSA requires that at least 51% of the funds be used for FSP programming.)
2. General System Development Funds improve programs, services and supports for individuals in full service partnerships as well as the entire population of persons with severe and persistent mental illness.
3. Outreach and Engagement Funds provide for special activities needed to reach unserved populations.