The local mental health board shall do all the following: Continually review and evaluate the community's mental health needs, services, facilities and specific challenges; Develop strategies to meet those needs, provide those services, improve those facilities and address those specific challenges; Make recommendations to the Tulare County Mental Health Board shall be those prescribed in Section 5604.2 of the Welfare and Institutions Code; Those prescribed by Statue, County Ordinance or Resolution; and those transferred by specific order of the Board of Supervisors.

• Contact Name

  Elodia Burlingame

• Contact Phone

  559-624-7462

• Contact Email

  EBurlingame@tularehhsa.org or TCMHBoard@tularehhsa.org

• Membership Details

  Membership shall consist of the following:
  If the Board maintains a 15 member then the following applies:
  Half of all the board members must be a Mental Health consumer or family member of a mental health consumer (Consumer/Family member means those individuals that are currently or have received mental health services)
  One member of the Board of Supervisors will have a seat on this Board

  Remaining seats shall consist of the following:
  The remaining 6 positions may be filled at the discretion of the Board. That is to say, there is no requirement as to seat type listed in the W&I code.
  1 Alcohol & drug expert and/or consumer
  1 Workforce development/employment training representative
  1 Education representative
  1 Law enforcement representative (Probation, JDF, Sheriff or other law enforcement agency)
  1 Child/youth/foster parent representative
  1 Adult/older adult care representative
  In the alternative ? appoint a regular community member to serve or, have a transitional are youth (18-25) sit on the Board.

  Exclusions that must be adhered to referencing these remaining six (6) seats:
  No member of the Mental Health Board or his/her spouse can be a:
  Full or part-time County Employee of County Mental Health Service
  Employees of the State Department of Mental Health
  Employees of, or a paid member of the governing body of, an Mental Health contract agency.

• Bylaws Mental_Health_12.20.2016.HHSA.pdf