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Morrow County proclaims September 2025 as National Recovery Month
Summary
The Morrow County Board of Commissioners adopted a proclamation recognizing National Recovery Month and highlighted the county’s publicly funded behavioral health services; the proclamation noted 5,292 county residents received behavioral health services in 2025.
MORROW COUNTY, Sept. 10, 2025 — The Morrow County Board of Commissioners read and adopted a proclamation declaring September 2025 as National Recovery Month in Morrow County and urged residents to support behavioral-health services in the community.
The proclamation, as read into the public record, affirms that behavioral health is part of overall health and states that treatment is effective and people can recover from substance-use and mental-health disorders. It cites a county statistic that 5,292 Morrow County residents received behavioral health care services from the county’s publicly funded system in 2025.
Why it matters: The proclamation is ceremonial but highlights the county’s role in coordinating publicly funded behavioral health services and recognizes the Delaware-Morrow Mental Health and Recovery Service Board and community partners for their work.
The board’s proclamation said the county and its partners invite residents to participate in National Recovery Month and called for equitable access to behavioral health care. The proclamation text referenced federal mental-health and addictions parity legislation (as read in the meeting) and encouraged community awareness and support for recovery-positive programs.
The proclamation was entered into the meeting record and signed by the commissioners, the transcript shows.
What was not specified: The proclamation text as read referenced federal parity legislation using imprecise phrasing; the proclamation did not cite a specific statute or public law number in the transcript. The 5,292 figure was presented in the reading as a count of county residents served by the publicly funded system in 2025.
