Supervisor Plummer used her July 22 report to summarize behavioral-health metrics and regional convening outcomes and urged data-driven focus on services and infrastructure. The remarks were an informational report; the board took no formal action on policy or funding during the item.

Plummer said the county’s behavioral-health services serve people with moderate to severe illness and that, in the most recent fiscal year, the county served about 2,700 clients compared with roughly 3,000 the previous year, a decline she described as almost 10 percent. She told supervisors that about one-third of clients served have a primary diagnosis of schizophrenia, a share “two to three times higher than any other diagnosis.”

Plummer highlighted two age-related trends: the county recorded roughly 300 people served for PTSD in the last fiscal year, and almost 200 of those were age 18, which she said indicates many young people in the community are receiving trauma-related services. She also reported that the percentage of youth clients diagnosed with ADHD who are prescribed medication rose from about 40 percent in mid-2023 to about 73 percent in the most recent data, and she said she has asked staff to investigate drivers of that increase.

On substance use, Plummer said opioid use disorder is the most common substance-use diagnosis among county clients served through Partnership Health and noted that of local overdose incidents where naloxone (Narcan) was administered, 37 percent involved people aged 25 to 34. She said regional collaborators identified behavioral-health infrastructure — treatment beds, crisis stabilization and inpatient psychiatric capacity — as a top regional priority at a recent convening hosted by RCRC, the Steinberg Institute, the Arch Collaborative and Partnership Health Plan.

Plummer asked staff to analyze whether outreach and interventions are reaching the 25-to-34 age group with high overdose rates and signaled continued attention to targeted program design. No board motion or vote occurred on this report.