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Speaker Bio
Bill Brenneman
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Riverside University Health System
Behavioral Health
Bill Brenneman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who has worked for Riverside
University Health System - Behavioral Health for the past 16 years. Prior to joining the
department, Mr. Brenneman spent many years in the private healthcare system primarily
working in Psychiatric Hospital settings and in delivering crisis services in Emergency
Room settings. His first 5 years with mental health were spent focusing on psychiatric
hospitalization of minors including the development of a Crisis Stabilization Unit. In
January of 2005, Mr. Brenneman was hired to oversee and implement Proposition 63
more formally known as the Mental Health Service Act (MHSA). The MHSA allows
counties the resources necessary to transform their mental health system and move
toward recovery and resiliency oriented services. This includes direct community services
to Riverside County residents across all age spans; prevention and early intervention and
innovation programs; as well as the necessary infrastructure, facilities, technology, and
training elements necessary to support the mental health system of care.