Mental health: community-based services.

Existing law, the Investment in Mental Health Wellness Act of 2013, requires funds appropriated by the Legislature to the California Health Facilities Financing Authority for the purposes of the act be made available to selected counties or counties acting jointly and used to, among other things, expand local resources for the development, capital, equipment acquisition, and applicable program startup or expansion costs to increase capacity for specified client assistance and services, and to provide a complete continuum of crisis services for children and youth 21 years of age and under, regardless of where they live in the state. The act authorizes the authority to consider making grant awards to private nonprofit corporations and public agencies in an area or region of the state if a county, or counties acting jointly, affirmatively supports this designation and collaboration in lieu of a county government directly receiving grant funds. This bill would delete that limitation and authorize the authority to consider making grant awards to private nonprofit corporations and public agencies in an area or region of the state.