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	<title>The Impact of Proposition 63 on the Financing and Delivery of Mental Health Programs in California</title>
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			The 
            Impact of Proposition 63 on the Financing and<br />
			Delivery of Mental Health Programs in California
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			<a href="http://www.chcf.org" rel="external">
				California HealthCare Foundation</a>, Award Number 04-1618
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			<h3 class="sec_title">Project Team</h3>
			<a href="../director.htm#richard">Richard Scheffler, PhD</a><br />
			<a href="../staff.htm#tim">Timothy Brown, PhD</a><br />
			<a href="../faculty.htm#teh-wei">Teh-wei Hu, PhD</a><br />
			<a href="../board.htm#richard_frank">Richard Frank, PhD</a><br />
			David Mechanic, PhD<br />
			Sandra Naylor Goodwin, PhD, MSW<br />
			<a href="../researchers.htm#neal">Neal Adams, MD, MPH</a><br />
			<a href="../staff.htm#mistique">Mistique Felton, MPH</a><br />
			
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			<h3 class="sec_title">Abstract</h3>
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				In November 2004, California voters passed Proposition 63, a landmark piece of 
				mental health and fiscal legislation, now enacted as the Mental Health Services 
				Act (MHSA). This initiative places a 1% tax on individuals who have an adjusted 
				gross income over $1 million, affecting about 30,000 taxpayers and is intended to 
				raise $1.8 billion (a 31% increase) in new revenues over the first three years to
				support county-operated mental health systems. The Petris Center, in the UC Berkeley 
				School of Public Health, has been awarded a $1,050,000 grant by the California 
				Health Care Foundation to study the implementation and effects of Proposition 63 
				over the next three years. The evaluation will focus on three areas: (1) monitoring 
				the flow the funds; (2) documenting the change in programs and services provided; 
				and (3) understanding the process of change, in particular looking at the extent to 
				which evidence-based practices are used in altering the structure and processes of 
				the mental health services system. The study will include both state wide 
				quantitative analyses using the county as the unit of analysis as well as 6 to 8 
				case studies of individual counties.
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		For information on funding for this project, go to the 
		<a href="../funding.htm#impact_of_prop63">funding</a> page.
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