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Highlands Community Services warns county of rising local-match pressures and state enforcement for behavioral health funding

3124010 · April 8, 2025
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Summary

The executive of Highlands Community Services told the Board that new emphasis on the state-required 10% local match and shrinking matching resources pose material risks to the agency's state funding and service delivery; she asked the board to note the county's current local-match shortfall.

Rebecca Holmes, who identified herself as representing Highlands Community Services (the regional Community Services Board), briefed the board on a set of state and federal funding and compliance risks that could affect service levels in Washington County.

Holmes said the Code of Virginia requires a 10% local match for certain state behavioral-health funding and that enforcement and waiver approval are tightening…

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