The County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California supports the state's 58 county and city behavioral health departments (including the City of Berkeley and Tri-Cities Mental Health Authority) by providing leadership, advocacy, and support to County Behavioral Health Directors and programs.

What Do California's County Behavioral Health Agencies Do?

County Behavioral Health Agencies provide mental health and substance use disorder services, primarily to California's low-income populations with serious mental illness and substance use disorders, through Medi-Cal and other programs. 

County Behavioral Health Agencies also:

• Serve the behavioral needs of ALL ages - from early childhood to the end of life.

• Offer services focused on assessment, treatment, rehabilitation, recovery, and case management for those in need. They value an approach focused on prevention using early identification and intervention with clients but provide specialty services at all levels of care.

• Embrace a biopsychosocial (the interconnection between biology, psychology, and socio-environmental factors), non-clinic-based approach, providing mobile, field-based, and community services in schools and homes.

• Provide culturally and linguistically responsive care in the least restrictive environment where treatment plans are individualized and driven by each client's unique needs.