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Mental Health department expands outreach and street psychiatry, stresses capacity limits in jail and inpatient care
Summary
Mental health officials described expanded mobile outreach (street psychiatry), high volumes in jail mental-health contacts and crisis responses, grant-funded criminal-justice collaborations and caution about potential federal funding cuts that could affect services.
Department of Mental Health staff presented statistics and program expansions to the finance committee, highlighting crisis-diversion successes and new outreach programs serving people with severe behavioral-health needs.
A department representative said last year the adult outpatient clinic served 641 unique individuals and that another 837 people were diverted to community services. At Albany Correctional Facility the department reported 940 patients in clinic-based services and more than…
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