Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (MHSOAC)
The Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission is the commission established by Proposition 63 to provide oversight and direction over county and state implementation of a tax on incomes over a million dollars that is generating between $1 and $2 billion annually to support increased mental health services. Among its priorities are prevention and early intervention and for transition age youth this particularly means providing services and supports and identifying mental illnesses while people are still transition age youth rather than allowing, as current practices do, youth to fail first often winding up in jail, hospital, or homeless on the street before anyone recognizes the need for mental health services.
CAYEN activities with the commission will be to ensure that in all policy decisions the commission and its many special committees being established that the transition age youth view point is reflected in its policy and decision making.