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County frames behavioral-health reform, reentry support and alternative response as strategic priorities
Summary
Commissioners pushed behavioral-health prevention, expanded reentry supports, and alternative response units in a regionally coordinated approach; staff described HRSA-funded peer supports in the detention facility, planned regional behavioral-health leadership councils, and next steps for an inclusive reentry plan due in December.
Behavioral-health reform, reentry services and alternative-response strategies were a major thread of the strategic-planning session as commissioners asked staff to align county programs with regionwide behavioral-health reform and to strengthen wraparound services for people leaving custody.
Community Services and detention facility staff described current programs and new partnerships: an HRSA grant supports two peer-support workers at the adult detention facility to link people leaving custody to community services, and Community Services…
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