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Committee approves two Whole Health funding items: court-based mental health staff and downtown outreach worker contract

3050332 · March 19, 2025
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Summary

The Health and Human Services Committee voted to accept state funding for a court-based mental health social worker and to add City of Ithaca funds to the county budget to support REACH outreach staff downtown.

Tompkins County’s Health and Human Services Committee voted March 19 to accept two Whole Health Department funding measures: a funded social-work position tied to court-based mental-health services and a joint city–county payment to support outreach workers in downtown Ithaca.

The first resolution authorized acceptance of funds and a budget adjustment to create one licensed clinical social-work position for court-based mental-health services…

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