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Lawrence County creates grant‑funded MAT/outpatient coordinator at correctional facility
Summary
The salary board approved a nonclinical, grant‑funded medication‑assisted treatment (MAT) coordinator position at the Lawrence County Correctional Facility to preserve telehealth‑based MAT and outpatient services; funding comes from a Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency grant that expires at year end.
Lawrence Countysalary board on June 24 approved Salary Board Resolution 29 to create a nonclinical medication‑assisted treatment (MAT) and outpatient coordinator at the Lawrence County Correctional Facility with a $40,000 base salary, funded entirely by a grant.
"The Lawrence County corrections facility has run a very successful grant funded medication assisted treatment program for incarcerated individuals since 2018," Deputy Warden Stilwell said during the meeting. "All costs associated with the position will be absorbed by the current PCCD grant. It does expire the end of this year. There is a possibility of grant funding continuing, we just don't have that information yet."
Stilwell described the coordinator role as administrative and nonclinical: scheduling and tracking telehealth appointments, completing referral and prescreening forms, and coordinating secure telehealth sessions with contracted providers. The position is intended to replace the current administrator who is retiring and to maintain continuity of services for incarcerated people already enrolled in MAT programs. County officials said the position will be eliminated when grant funding ends.
The meeting record notes the grant funding comes from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD). Board discussion confirmed the county's obligation to continue MAT services for individuals entering custody who are already enrolled in medication‑assisted treatment.
A motion to approve Resolution 29 passed on a recorded roll call vote. The meeting minutes show the prison board chair and county commissioners participated in the discussion; the prison board was described as a seven‑member body by state law, with four members present that day.
Warden Malmeister and other corrections officials attended the meeting to answer questions about program operations. County staff said quarterly reporting requirements to the grantor will continue and that the county controller's office tracks grant expenditures to ensure no general fund support is required while the grant is active.
The board recorded the resolution as approved; county corrections and the controller's office will handle recruitment and implementation steps while monitoring the grant's continuation.
