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County buys new OMH navigator funding, creates grant‑funded substance‑use coordinator and reports jail, EMR and parking changes
Summary
The Legislature accepted state Office of Mental Health funding for court-based mental health navigators, created a grant-funded coordinator for substance-use initiatives and heard mental-health staff describe a May go‑live for a new EMR, improved jail mental-health workflows and continued parking problems for clinic clients.
Lauren Walsh, director of mental health services for Cayuga County, presented two committee resolutions and a departmental report that the committee approved and discussed.
The committee accepted a New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) state-aid allocation to fund court‑based mental-health navigators (HA6). Walsh said the program connects people involved in the criminal-justice system who have mental-health disorders with initial screening, referrals and community services; navigators can be nonlicensed case-management staff and the county plans to contract out the service via RFP rather than…
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