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Judge proposes regional behavioral-health docket for opioid abatement funding; board signals support
Summary
Judge Julius Sickle described a plan for a Northern Neck behavioral-health specialty docket that would use opioid abatement funds for a case manager and related services; the board expressed broad support and directed staff to partner on grant planning.
Judge Julius Sickle, a general district court judge, told the Westmoreland County Board of Supervisors that the county could apply a portion of its opioid settlement distributions to a regional behavioral-health docket serving misdemeanor defendants with severe mental-health or substance-use drivers of criminal behavior.
Sickle described the docket as a court-supervised program that would divert eligible participants from ordinary adjudication into an 11-month supervised treatment and monitoring program. That model would place a trained case manager as the program administrator, provide weekly court appearances,…
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