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Decatur County to expand Crisis Intervention Team after $5 million grant
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County officials described a plan to expand a Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) after receiving a $5,000,000 foundation grant; program will fund training, vehicles, transportation and community mental-health positions and officials said hiring will begin for two field officers and a coordinator.
Decatur County officials described plans on the county council agenda to expand a Crisis Intervention Team after receiving a $5,000,000 foundation grant.
The county’s jail commander, Mike Ailes, told the council the grant will fund CIT training, vehicles, equipment, transportation and community mental-health personnel. Ailes said the CIT model has been used inside the county detention facility for about 18 months and credited the approach with reducing use-of-force reports in the jail from 128 in 2022 to 23 last year. He said the goal is to bring that model into the community to reduce crises that lead to detention and to improve outcomes by connecting people to medication, inpatient care and housing resources.
Ailes said the team will be multiagency: law enforcement, fire and EMS will…
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