Mental health: pilot crisis stabilization program.

Existing law, the Investment in Mental Health Wellness Act of 2013, provides that funds appropriated by the Legislature to the California Health Facilities Financing Authority for purposes of the act be made available to selected counties or counties acting jointly, except as otherwise provided, and used to increase capacity for client assistance and services in specified areas, including crisis intervention and crisis stabilization. This bill would require the State Department of Health Care Services to create a pilot crisis stabilization program in the County of Orange to provide mental health and safety support for older adults, and would appropriate an unspecified sum from the General Fund to the department for the purposes of implementing these provisions.