Mismanagement of California's Mental Health System

California's Dept. of Mental Health is apparently $300 million in the red. A series of accounting blunders caused the deficit in the program that provides mental health services to children. Jon and his guests discuss what can be done about the financial shortfall and the affect it could have on mental health services in California. Joining the conversation are H.D. Palmer, Deputy Director of external affairs for the California State Department of Finance, Dr. Marvin J. Southard of the County of Los Angeles Dept. of Mental Health, Senator Elaine Alquist, Chairwoman of the Senate Budget Sub-Committee on Health and Human Services and Nicette Short of the California Alliance of Child and Family Services.