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Kittitas County reports progress on mental-health tax-funded programs and Handle With Care juvenile referrals
Summary
County public-health staff and the sheriff/police described spending from a 0.1% mental-health and chemical-dependency sales tax, advisory-board funding cycles, school and jail partnerships, and the Handle With Care program that flags children exposed to traumatic incidents for low-barrier school-based support and free counseling.
County public-health staff and law enforcement provided updates on programs funded by a one-tenth of 1 percent sales tax enacted to support mental-health and substance-use services, and on a Handle With Care juvenile-referral program.
Presenters said the sales-tax revenue—authorized under state law (RCW 82.14.460)—generates roughly $2 million annually for mental-health and substance-use programming in Kittitas County. The county established an advisory board that recommends allocations; commissioners make final funding decisions.…
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