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Board approves START pilot funding to unify county treatment courts; $860,000 in freed-capacity funds authorized
Summary
The Board of Commissioners authorized county funding to launch START (Substance Treatment, Advocacy and Recovery to Thrive), a two-year pilot consolidating specialty treatment courts, and directed staff to pursue state and other grants and to return with an evaluation.
The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners voted May 19 to fund a two-year pilot to consolidate several specialty treatment courts into a single county-administered initiative called START (Substance Treatment, Advocacy and Recovery to Thrive).
Justice Services Director Courtney McCullough and Assistant County Manager Heather Steens presented the proposal. START is meant to bring sobriety/DWI, adult drug, family opioid, veterans, juvenile and (under the proposal) two additional courts — mental-health court and human-trafficking court (Worth Court) — under a coordinated, county‑administered structure with common intake, data collection and unified…
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