The Client Services Information (CSI) Demographic Dashboard provides an overview of who is served in California’s public mental health system for adults with serious mental illnesses (or children with “severe emotional disturbances”), focused on such characteristics as age, race/ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, and language spoken. Covered services include certain non-Medi-Cal services as well as Medi-Cal specialty mental health services. A person is counted as being served during a fiscal year if one or more of their CSI service dates fall within the fiscal year. The dashboard generally does not include services provided under MHSA Prevention and Early Intervention programming.
The dashboard contains three sections: (1) an overview section that looks at aggregated data for all CSI clients by fiscal year, (2) a regional section that looks at aggregated data for CSI clients by age group, region, fiscal year and demographic category, and (3) a county section that looks at aggregated data for CSI clients by age group, county, fiscal year and demographic category. Data is presented for the percentage of the total population represented by the chosen demographic category. Users can hover over an individual bar to see the person count and a time-series line graph for that particular category.
All data as of 7/1/24 extract received from the Department of Health Care Services. As of this extract, some counties have not reported recent years of CSI data.
Key Findings/Highlights
The total number of persons served with publicly funded specialty mental health services statewide, peaked in FY 17-18 with nearly 722,000 clients served. Excluding the most recent year of incomplete data – the decline of individuals served has been gradual, with the overall decrease between FYs 13-14 and 21-22 being 7%.
Latino/a (41.3% in FY 22-23) and White/Caucasian (22.1% in FY 22-23) make up nearly 64% of persons served with publicly funded specialty mental health services statewide. From FY 13-14 to FY 22-23, the proportion of those reporting Other race/ethnicity and those whose race/ethnicity is Unknown have both increased (2.3% to 6.8% for Other, 4.9% to 8.4% for Unknown). Those reporting White race/ethnicity decreased over the same period (29% in FY 13-14 to 22.1% in FY 22-23).
