CalMHSA hosted an educational series from July 29 to Sept. 30, 2025 to help counties advance California’s statewide behavioral health goals and population-level measures under the Behavioral Health Services Act. Designed for county staff, the webinars and corresponding office hours help counties incorporate these goals into Integrated Plans and strengthen data-informed strategies that can improve population health outcomes. Each series focused on one or a related group of statewide goals and measures — such as homelessness, involvement with the justice system, untreated behavioral health conditions and concurrent physical health conditions, engagement in school and work, and more.

In the Sept. 15 Behavioral Health Transformation Data Explainer Series webinar, "Engagement in School, Engagement in Work," instructors shared AskCHIS_^TM as a source of county-level data that could be used to measure engagement — or lack of engagement — at work or school that may be correlated to academic failure, dropout, disinterest in work, and poor mental or behavioral health. For the engagement in school goal, measures were twelfth graders who graduated high school on time, student chronic absenteeism rate, and meaningful participation in school. For the engagement in work goal, measures were the unemployment rate and the percentage of adults unable to work due to mental problems.