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County leaders urge lawmakers to close funding gap for community behavioral health services
Summary
County commissioners and board representatives told the subcommittee that court-ordered and crisis services, diversion programs and workforce investments need additional funding beyond the governor's recommendation to meet statutorily mandated duties and reduce state hospital stays and jail encounters.
Phil Brady, Wasco County commissioner and co-chair of the Association of Oregon Counties Health and Human Services steering committee, told the subcommittee county governments support community behavioral health funding in HB 5025 and outlined specific dollar needs to meet mandated court-ordered and crisis services.
"County boards of commissioners are the local mental health authority," Brady said, asking the committee to fund county…
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