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County updates on mobile crisis, drug task force and inpatient treatment reopening
Summary
Sullivan County staff reported progress on mobile crisis weekend coverage, community trauma response and drug task force outreach, and said an inpatient substance-use treatment site at Garnet/Harris campuses may open early this summer; staffing and a Monticello location remain outstanding.
County Health and Human Services staff told the committee in April that multiple behavioral-health initiatives are advancing, including an RFP for expanded mobile crisis weekend coverage, recruitment for a peer court navigator, development of a community trauma response team and planning for a crisis intervention (CIT/SIT) team.
Deputy county staff said the mobile crisis weekend-expansion RFP is being drafted and will be released to solicit providers. The county is also seeking to fill a peer court navigator position intended to help divert appropriate cases out of formal criminal processing and into peer-support pathways.
Staff reported work on a community trauma response team (CTRT), which met on April 7 and is now…
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