California’s Youth & Families Recommend 12 Calls To Action To Transform Youth Behavioral Health Services To Better Meet Needs

California’s youth and families recommended 12 calls to action to reimagine and transform the behavioral health system to better serve children and youth ages 0 to 25 years. The recommendations were included in the “Youth at the Center” Report, commissioned by the California Health and Human Services Agency (CalHHS), as part of the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative’s (CYBHI) efforts to center children, youth, and families. The CYBHI is a multiyear, multi-department state initiative to improve the youth behavioral health system.

The three domains—shift thinking, reimagine, and transform—each offer four calls to action (CTA . . .