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Ohio behavioral health director highlights MRSS expansion, workforce incentives and recovery housing
Summary
Leanne Cornyn, director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, told the committee the agency is expanding mobile response and stabilization services, investing ARPA funds to recruit behavioral health workers and certifying recovery housing to improve treatment access.
Leanne Cornyn, director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, told the House Children and Human Services Committee that her agency has prioritized mobile crisis response and workforce recruitment to reduce hospitalizations and criminal‑justice involvement among people with behavioral health needs.
Cornyn said hospitals are at about 96 percent capacity and that “more than 9 out of 10 of those beds are occupied by criminal justice involved patients,” highlighting strain on both behavioral‑health and general hospital services.
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