2019 California Code
Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC
DIVISION 5 - COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
PART 3.4 - Early Psychosis Intervention Plus (EPI PLUS) Program
Section 5835.2.
(a) There is hereby established an advisory committee to the commission. The Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission shall accept nominations and applications to the committee, and the chair of the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission shall appoint members to the committee, unless otherwise specified. Membership on the committee shall be as follows:
(1) The chair of the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, or his or her designee, who shall serve as the chair of the committee.
(2) The president of the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, or his or her designee.
(3) The director of a county behavioral health department that administers an early psychosis and mood disorder detection and intervention-type program in his or her county.
(4) A representative from a nonprofit community mental health organization that focuses on service delivery to transition-aged youth and young adults.
(5) A psychiatrist or psychologist.
(6) A representative from the Behavioral Health Center of Excellence at the University of California, Davis, or a representative from a similar entity with expertise from within the University of California system.
(7) A representative from a health plan participating in the Medi-Cal managed care program and the employer-based health care market.
(8) A representative from the medical technologies industry who is knowledgeable in advances in technology related to the use of innovative social media and mental health information feedback access.
(9) A representative knowledgeable in evidence-based practices as they pertain to the operations of an early psychosis and mood disorder detection and intervention-type program, including knowledge of other states’ experiences.
(10) A representative who is a parent or guardian caring for a young child with a mental illness.
(11) An at-large representative identified by the chair.
(12) A representative who is a person with lived experience of a mental illness.
(13) A primary care provider from a licensed primary care clinic that provides integrated primary and behavioral health care.
(b) The advisory committee shall be convened by the chair and shall, at a minimum, do all of the following:
(1) Provide advice and guidance broadly on approaches to early psychosis and mood disorder detection and intervention programs from an evidence-based perspective.
(2) Review and make recommendations on the commission’s guidelines or any regulations in the development, design, selection of awards pursuant to this part, and the implementation or oversight of the early psychosis and mood disorder detection and intervention competitive selection process established pursuant to this part.
(3) Assist and advise the commission in the overall evaluation of the early psychosis and mood disorder detection and intervention competitive selection process.
(4) Provide advice and guidance as requested and directed by the chair.
(5) Recommend a core set of standardized clinical and outcome measures that the funded programs would be required to collect, subject to future revision. A free data sharing portal shall be available to all participating programs.
(6) Inform the funded programs about the potential to participate in clinical research studies.
(Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 414, Sec. 2. (AB 1315) Effective January 1, 2018.)
