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Speakers urge council support for April referendum to create community mental health board
Summary
Representatives from NAMI, local schools and recovery services told the council during public comment that a binding April referendum to create a community mental health board would address gaps in local mental-health and substance-use services.
Several community speakers used the council's public-comment period to explain a binding April referendum to create a community mental health board and to ask village leaders to support the measure.
Hugh Bridal, a board member of the local chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), said the referendum — if approved by voters — would create a seven-member volunteer board, with one member also serving as a liaison to the township board. "The first job of the new mental health board will be to conduct a needs assessment" across…
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