Building School Behavioral Health Systems in Rural California: Lessons from the California Behavioral Health Student Services Act (BHSSA) Evaluation

Join WestEd and county behavioral health and education systems leaders as they explore how the BHSSA is helping rural California communities strengthen their school behavioral health systems. Leaders from Del Norte, Humboldt, Mono, and Siskiyou will share how their counties are leveraging school behavioral health funding, local partnerships, and community assets to improve the behavioral health and well-being of their school communities. You will learn about how the rural context shapes school behavioral health services and supports, how local partnerships build on community strengths, and how BHSSA funding has supported locally responsive systems change.