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City, public-health and ADAMH outline alternative crisis response expansion and staffing needs amid funding uncertainty
Summary
City public-safety and public-health staff described planned personnel and costs for mobile crisis, Right Response and pilot civilian teams while county ADAMH detailed nearly $31 million in crisis investments and ongoing operational support for the Franklin County Crisis Care Center.
Columbus City staff and county behavioral-health officials used the Health, Human Services and Equity Committee hearing to map the city’s alternative crisis response investments and to outline remaining gaps.
Public Safety briefed the committee that the department’s personnel commitment for alternate-response services in 2026 totals about $5.2 million (roughly $4.56 million from the general fund and approximately $683,000 in grant funds). Public Safety said its mobile crisis response program includes one fire social worker (cost cited at $135,780), one sergeant and five officers, with a total public-safety investment for mobile crisis response of about $1,260,000.
Columbus Public Health’s Anita Clark said the…
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