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Community Counseling Solutions details trainings, audits and Measure 110 funding changes; 0 Suicide coordinator outlines QPR rollout
Summary
CCS leaders told commissioners of audit scores on criminal-justice-related programs, an uncertain federal funding picture for Measure 110 allocations and a regional rollout of QPR suicide-prevention trainings led by the agency’s 0 Suicide coordinator.
Community Counseling Solutions (CCS) briefed the Board of Commissioners on April 2 about multiple behavioral-health items: audit results for corrections-related programs, pending federal and state funding changes, and outreach efforts including suicide-prevention training.
CCS reported results from state and Criminal Justice Commission (CJC) audits using a University of Cincinnati tool. The agency said its batterers-intervention treatment program scored about 50 percent on the CJC sampling tool and that CCS plans to send staff for University of Cincinnati training to raise that score. CCS reported a 68 percent score on substance-use services for the corrections population, above the CJC threshold cited in the meeting.
Director remarks summarized changing Measure 110 (marijuana tax) revenue allocations. CCS said state-level rebalancing reduced some allocations by roughly 8 percent; the reduction had only a minimal impact on Morrow County’s Measure 110 funding, the presentation said. CCS also noted low enrollment in a deflection program but said harm-reduction and emergency-room referral work continues.
On service staffing and grants, CCS told commissioners it applied for an OHA grant to fund a linguistically specific, Spanish-speaking behavioral-health clinician shared across counties; award decisions have been delayed. CCS said family-planning services are being continued while the current contractor’s contract ends this month and staff work to secure a replacement. CCS also reported audits of addictions and domestic-violence programs and said that low client counts for some court-referred services make compliance and required training a funding challenge.
Melissa Pointer, CCS’s 0 Suicide coordinator, described the QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) training CCS is offering across Morrow and Umatilla counties. Pointer said the two-hour training is intended for staff, educators, first responders and residents who want to recognize warning signs and refer people in crisis to services. Pointer said CCS trained staff at local schools and plans community sessions; she described a recent case where outreach and family action led to rapid connection with mental-health services.
CCS staff asked commissioners to note ongoing uncertainty about federal funding lines that feed behavioral-health programs and said CCS would update the board as grant decisions are made.
