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Key Findings

1. California has launched a historic effort to improve its residents' mental health through prevention and early intervention (PEI) initiatives.
2. Statewide mental health programs have designed resources and programs, reached large numbers of Californians, and improved the knowledge, attitudes, and intentions of those who were reached.
3. Statewide PEI programming should be sustained to enable observation of cumulative effects on longer-term outcomes over the course of time.
4. Ongoing measurement of the mental health of Californians is critical for tracking needs, assessing longer-term impacts of PEI investments, and targeting future programming.

The California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA) — a coalition of California counties — has implemented an ambitious, first-of-its-kind set of statewide prevention and early intervention (PEI) initiatives to help reduce mental health stigma and discrimination, prevent suicide, and improve student mental health. Under the initiatives, program partners developed resources and programs and implemented PEI activities as part of a greater strategic plan aimed at improving mental health among residents. The plan was carefully developed through a process that involved diverse stakeholders (Clark et al., 2013). The programming was funded by Proposition 63, the Mental Health Services Act, and implementation began in 2011.