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Budget panel approves opioid-settlement funds to keep two court case managers
Summary
Vigo County budget committee approved using opioid-settlement funds to hire two case managers — one for the mental health treatment court and one RISE case manager — to maintain outreach, transportation and treatment-referral work that county judges said reduces jail stays.
Vigo County’s budget committee voted to use opioid-settlement funds to retain two case managers who work with people in the county jail and court system, members said at the Dec. 2 meeting.
Charles Johnson, identifying himself as from the Cook County Superior Court, Division 1, and joined in remarks by Judge Kelly, asked the committee to cover one case manager for the mental health treatment court and one RISE case manager after grant funding through Healthy Indiana was cut and is scheduled to end Jan. 1, 2026. “These programs are directly targeting individuals that are in need of assistance that are covered by what the opioid settlement funds were requested to be used for,” Johnson…
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