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Ohio proposal expands crisis response, mobile teams and community behavioral health clinics
Summary
Leanne Cornyn, director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, presented the agency’s executive budget priorities to expand crisis and community behavioral health services.
Leanne Cornyn, director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, presented the agency’s executive budget priorities in an informal hearing, outlining expansion plans for statewide crisis services, mobile response teams, coordinated specialty care and workforce supports.
"That is why this budget will close a gap in crisis care by ensuring all Ohioans in crisis have someone to call, someone to respond, and somewhere safe to go," Director Cornyn told the House Children and Human Services Committee. She described continuing investment in 988 call centers, a proposed centralized system with 9‑1‑1 interoperability and a plan to expand mobile crisis and Mobile Response and Stabilization Services (MRSS) for children and a similar mobile response network for adults.
Cornyn provided several operational metrics and funding proposals: Ohio currently has 19 988 call centers and has…
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