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Caroline County Health Department outlines behavioral‑health services expansion, mobile integrated health start and prevention programs
Summary
Health department leaders briefed commissioners on FY25 behavioral‑health caseloads, school‑based services, mobile integrated health plans with a December pilot start, and prevention work including asthma home visits and a water‑safety campaign.
Robin Cahall, director of the Caroline County Health Department, and Jessica Toole, behavioral health director and local addictions authority, presented the department’s FY25 results and planned programs on Oct. 28 during the commissioners’ Board of Health update.
Toole reported the health department served 1,006 behavioral health clients in FY25 across clinic, mobile and school‑based programs. Highlights included a school‑based mental health effort that served roughly 269 students in five northern county schools, a detention‑center program that served 48 inmates in FY25 and has already served 52 in the first quarter of FY26, and a youth substance‑use mobile treatment van that has served 36 youth since it began visits to middle and high schools.
Measurement‑based care tools have been deployed: Toole said 27…
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