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Mental Health Systems takes a proactive approach in communicating to the community about mental health issues, services and successes. Follow along with us as we promote healthy community practices through print, broadcast and social media. Please let us know if you see an item that would be of interest to others in the MHS community. Submit it here.

MHS Offers Counseling During Operation Tip The Scale

October 21, 2011- Mental Health Systems, as a part of San Diego's multi-agency Methamphetamine Strike Force, visited the homes of known drug users in the Escondido, during a sweep aimed at getting offenders off the streets and back on the path to sobriety. The law enforcement operation, dubbed Tip the Scale, includes a chance for people to meet with MHS counselors before they're jailed for the night. Read more in the North County Times article:

Community Building in Fresno (October 2011)

MHS continues to build strong community collaborations in Fresno. MHS Senior Vice President Rich Bradway has begun work with the Fresno Business Council on the Fresno Flourish Initiative. In another partner activity, MHS Vice President for the Central Valley Region, Jenny Bates was selected by Comcast for an interview on “Newsmakers”. (continued)

What Is San Bernardino's "Holistic Campus"? (October 2011)

The “Holistic Campus” is one of the most innovative and inventive programs funded by the County of San Bernardino to date; and MHS has been awarded a contract to provide these exciting services! The MHS Holistic Campus will be located in the City of Ontario. Designed to provide culturally inclusive, holistic health to our mental health consumers, the program will be driven by a board of community, peer and county behavioral health team members. This board will decide upon the alternative wellness to be offered, which will include nontraditional healing and health programs.

Donors Make a Difference: Onsite Mobile Medical Unit Serves Program Clients and Families (October 2011)

Clients of our Harmony West and Central East Regional Recovery Center are now able to have primary healthcare needs addressed at their program sites. Once a month, they are visited by Family Health Centers of San Diego’s Kids Express Mobile Medical Unit, which aims to reach people throughout the county by providing services as locations that can be easily accessed.

Realignment of Behavioral Health

(October 2011)-On October 1, 2011, the State of California began implementation of Assembly Bill (AB) 109. As a result, after that date, most non-serious, non-violent felons released from State prison will be released to County supervision, rather than the supervision of State Parole. Every County has a Community Corrections Partnership (CCP) committee that is responsible for how that County is going to handle this new responsibility.