Date of Conferral

2022

Degree

Ph.D.

School

Public Policy and Administration

Advisor

Lynn Wilson

Abstract

There is a gap in literature regarding sustainment of mental health programs following budget reductions. Customarily, decreases in budgets have been presumed to be connected to decreases in sustainability. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to describe the impact that a decrease in Proposition 63 funding had on nonprofit sustainability in the County of Orange, California. In 2004, California lawmakers enacted Prop 63 to revitalize the public mental health system. The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research was used as the conceptual framework for this study. This tool can be used to measure data in five categories; intervention, inner and outer settings, people involved, and implementation process. The primary research question was whether a decrease in Prop 63 mental health funding predicted a decrease in organizational sustainability for mental health nonprofits in the County of Orange, California. A circular systematic sampling technique was used to sample (18) participants. The primary instrument was an online survey hosted on SurveyMonkey. An inferential statistical analysis was performed using SPSS to determine relationships among the variables. The results of a chi-square test showed that was there was no statistically significant relationship between a decrease in Prop 63 funding and perceived organizational sustainability; this finding was attributed to the small sample size. This study could serve as a useful tool to understand whether governments may improve organizational sustainability by providing additional funding leading to positive social change. Future researchers could increase recruitment to encourage a greater sample size to ensure result validity.

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