{"id":134271,"date":"2026-01-15T05:09:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/134271\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T05:09:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:09:43","slug":"kern-behavioral-health-seeks-input-on-2026-27-mental-health-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/134271\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern Behavioral Health seeks input on 2026-27 mental health programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Kern Behavioral Health and Recovery Services is inviting public feedback over the next 30 days on the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), which supports programs aimed at reducing issues such as homelessness and incarceration linked to mental illness. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s extremely important in this community,&#8221; said Mark Kimmel, MHSA coordinator. <\/p>\n<p>The agency is seeking input on the 2026-27 annual report integrated plan and changes to one of its innovation projects. <\/p>\n<p>A community forum was held on Wednesday, and additional feedback can be provided at the next Behavioral Health Board meeting on Monday, Jan. 26, at 5:30 p.m. at 2001 28th Street.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kernbhrs.org\/about-us\/mental-health-services-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">kernbhrs.org\/about-us\/mental-health-services-act<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Kern Behavioral Health and Recovery Services is inviting public feedback over the next 30 days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-134271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}