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Behavioral health advocates ask Glynn County to join national '7Stepping Up'7 initiative to reduce jailings of people with mental illness
Summary
Glynn County behavioral health advocates asked the board to pass a resolution joining the national Stepping Up initiative, seek baseline jail-screening data and form a local leadership team; presenters said the sheriff and local provider Gateway have been engaged but no formal vote or funding commitment was taken on Oct. 21.
Representatives of Glynn County Behavioral Health Advocates urged the Glynn County Board of Commissioners at a work session Oct. 21 to pass a resolution joining the national Stepping Up initiative, a data-driven framework designed to reduce the over-incarceration of people with mental illness.
Christine Glover, a lead presenter for the advocates, described Stepping Up as a national framework launched in 2015 that has been adopted by more than 570 counties nationwide and provides technical assistance and tools to reduce jail bookings of people with mental illness. "Signing this resolution for Glynn County would mean…
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