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County committee hears Iroquois Mental Health funding gap and confirms new animal control administrator hiring

3428945 · May 20, 2025
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The county health and finance committees were told state grant funding for first-responder suicide prevention will end in fiscal 2026; the committees also reviewed animal control staffing and the county reported that Anne Perla Prairie was hired to begin May 19.

Members of the county’s health and finance committees heard that grant funding for first-responder suicide-prevention programs will discontinue beginning in fiscal year 2026 and that the Iroquois Mental Health Center is seeking ways to continue services in the absence of that funding.

Amy Zabel (recorded as discussing the Iroquois Mental Health Center) told the committee that since March the center…

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