California Department of Mental Health Transition Team Report
November 28, 2011 This report was commissioned by the Executive Office of the Department of Mental Health (DMH) to assist in the proposal for a state mental hospital department in the 2012-2013 GovernorÂ’s Budget. In the 2011-2012 GovernorÂ’s Budget policy direction for the new department was set forth, with initial phases implemented in the Budget Act of the same year. Even though the original scope of the project was to recommend the administrative structure for the department and to identify processes for better performance and accountability, collecting information on the departmentÂ’s deficit was included in . . .

