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Albany County amends 2025 mental‑health budget to expand mobile outreach, fund recovery center and move jail addiction funds
Summary
The Legislature's Health Committee approved multiple mental‑health budget amendments, including $966,388 over three years to expand a mobile outreach and overdose‑response team, $535,000 in state funding for a recovery center, and a $278,450 transfer to sheriff‑run jail addiction services.
The Albany County Legislature's Health Committee on May 1 approved several 2025 budget amendments to expand county mental‑health services, including a multiyear expansion of mobile outreach teams, a state‑funded recovery center contract and a transfer of jail addiction funds to the sheriff's department.
The committee voted to amend the Department of Mental Health budget to add $966,388 over three years to support the county's Mobile Outreach, Treatment and Overdose Response (MOTOR) program, which county staff said will create two full outreach teams and add three new staff positions. "The goal is to maximize and enhance what we're doing right now," said Dr. Giordano of the Department of Mental Health, who presented the request and said two customized vans are expected to arrive in June…
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