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Shawnee County to place therapists in community corrections under federal mental-health grant
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The board approved service agreements to integrate mental-health providers into Community Corrections under a Second Chance Act grant and authorized onboarding two in-house therapists to offer free assessments and treatment to probationers.
Shawnee County commissioners on April 21 approved service agreements to integrate mental-health providers into Community Corrections under a federal Second Chance Act grant and authorized hiring in-house therapists to provide assessments and treatment to probationers.
Steve Willis, head of the Department of Corrections overseeing Community Corrections, told commissioners the county supervises about 680 adult probationers at a time and that roughly 20% of revocations last year were linked to mental-health issues. “This is a really great day for Community Corrections…
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