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Commission approves behavioral-health services contract for Flathead County Detention Center

3031634 · March 27, 2025
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Summary

The county approved a contract to have the health department's mobile crisis team deliver assessments, peer support and care navigation to people in the detention center and to assist with suicide risk assessments and release planning.

Flathead County commissioners voted March 27 to authorize a contract enabling the Flathead County Health Department’s behavioral health staff to provide services inside the Flathead County Detention Center.

James Pike, behavioral health supervisor for the health department, told commissioners the contract would allow mobile crisis therapists to conduct non-emergency crisis…

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