Tax-funded mental health programs are not always easy to find
“In 2004, Californians approved the act, originally known as Proposition 63, which imposes a 1% tax on personal income over $1 million to help counties expand mental health care services. Gov. Jerry Brown expects it will bring in roughly $1.8 billion in the coming fiscal year. ‘Counties were able to take Mental Health Services Act dollars and either revamp existing programs or completely create new programs that didn’t exist at all,’ says James Wagner, deputy director of Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services.”