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County manager outlines behavioral-health investments: CARES campus housing, West Hills mental-health conversion
Summary
Washoe County Manager Eric Brown told the Warren Springs Rural Citizen Advisory Board on March 12 that the county is directing opioid settlement funds and other grants toward expanded behavioral‑health services and housing to reduce reliance on jails and emergency rooms.
Washoe County Manager Eric Brown told the Warren Springs Rural Citizen Advisory Board on March 12 that the county is directing opioid settlement funds and other grants toward expanded behavioral‑health services and housing to reduce reliance on jails and emergency rooms.
Brown said the CARES campus — the county's low‑barrier shelter complex — has moved into the next phase after the county received $21,000,000 from the state’s Home Means Nevada Fund to build affordable housing adjacent to the shelter. "If we could begin to find places for them to stay so that they're not in a shelter, that would be helpful and that's what we're gonna,…
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