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Chaffee County moves to apply for state co-responder grant to expand behavioral-health response
Summary
County staff said it will apply to the Colorado Department of Human Services for up to $301,000 to transition the local co-responder program into the sheriff's office; the application is on tomorrow’s consent agenda and commissioners discussed pulling it for fuller consideration.
Chaffee County staff told commissioners on Jan. 9 that the county will apply to the Colorado Department of Human Services, Behavioral Health Administration, for the state’s co-responder grant program and request the maximum award of $301,000.
The application would move the county’s existing co-responder model — a partnership that pairs clinical behavioral-health professionals with law enforcement — from the nonprofit Solvista into a grant-funded program housed within the Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office. County staff said the state changed eligibility so only local government entities may now apply and that consolidating the positions under the sheriff’s office…
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