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Superior Court seeks full-time mental-health-court director, warns of capacity limits
Summary
Superior Court leaders asked the council to fund making the treatment-court director full time and to expand case-management capacity, saying the mental-health court cannot accept new applicants under current staffing and certification limits and that a state grant would offset part of the cost.
Superior Court representatives, led by Bob Tigman and Chief Judge Scott Shively, asked the Vanderburgh County Council on Aug. 15 to approve budget changes to expand the county's mental-health court. The presenters said the program has operated since 2013 but is now at capacity and cannot accept new applicants under current certification rules.
"We can't take any new applicants or new people who need services because we are at max capacity under the regulations we're required to comply…
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