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Community Services seeks additional youth behavioral health case manager; commissioners debate lead role on homelessness and permanent supportive housing
Summary
Community Services Director Anne Ryan asked the board to fund a second youth behavioral-health case manager to continue a hospital-to-community bridge program; commissioners debated whether Santa Fe County should lead a regional permanent supportive‑housing effort if the city does not take the initiative.
Santa Fe County's Community Services Department presented FY2026 priorities that keep services broadly intact, add a second youth behavioral‑health case manager and ask commissioners to consider county leadership on permanent supportive housing if municipal partners do not move forward.
Director Anne Ryan told commissioners the department is revenue-generating and manages a network of roughly 100 community providers. She said the FY2026 proposal is largely flat or reduced across most lines but includes two targeted increases: funding to support seniors (food costs, linen services, two new senior centers coming online) and one additional youth behavioral‑health case manager to continue a hospital‑to‑community…
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