CARE Act Working Group

About

The Community Assistance, Recovery & Empowerment (CARE) Act creates a new pathway to deliver mental health and substance use disorder services to the most severely impaired Californians who too often suffer in homelessness or incarceration without treatment. The purpose of the CARE Act Working Group is to provide coordination and on-going engagement with, and support collaboration among, relevant state and local partners and other stakeholders throughout the phases of county implementation to support the successful implementation of the CARE Act.

For additional information:

To join the CARE Act listserv, please contact CAREAct@chhs.ca.gov.

Members

Al Rowlett – Turning Point Community Programs
Amber Irvine – San Diego County Behavioral Health
Beau Hennemann – Anthem Blue Cross
Bill Stewart – San Diego County Behavioral Health Advisory Board
Dr. Brian Hurley – Substance Abuse Prevention and Control (SAPC), Los Angeles Department of Public Health
Charlene Depner – Center for Families, Children & the Courts, Judicial Council of California
Dr. Clayton Chau — National Healthcare & Housing Advisors
Deb Roth – Disability Rights California
Dhakshike Wickrema – California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency
Harold Turner – NAMI Urban Los Angeles
Herb Hatanaka – Special Services for Groups
Dr. Katherine Warburton – Department of State Hospitals
Hon. Maria Hernandez – Superior Court of Orange County
Ivan Bhardwaj – California Department of Health Care Services, Behavioral Health
Jenny Bayardo – California Behavioral Health Planning Council
Jerry May – San Jose Fire Department, Local 230
Jodi Nerell – Sutter Health
Keris Jän Myrick – Person with Lived Experience of Schizophrenia Diagnosis
Ketra Carter – Homelessness Strategies and Solutions Department, City of San Diego
Lauren Rettagliata – Family Member
Lorin Kline – Legal Aid Association of California
Mark Salazar – Mental Health Association of San Francisco
Meagan Subers – California Professional Firefighters
Monica Morales – Office of Second District Supervisor for Santa Cruz County
Ruqayya Ahmad – California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
Sarah Jarman – Homelessness Strategies and Solutions Department, San Diego Housing Commission
Stephanie Welch – California Health and Human Services Agency
Susan Holt – Fresno County Behavioral Health
Tim Lutz – Sacramento County Health Services
Tracie Riggs – Tuolumne County Administration Office
Dr. Veronica Kelley – Orange County Mental Health and Recovery Services
Xóchitl Rodriguez Murillo – California Department of Veterans Affairs
Zachary Olmstead – California Department of Housing and Community Development