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Juvenile Services asks Ellsworth County to allocate part of mental-health appropriation after serving 17 youths
Summary
Sheriff Bernard, Casey Rolland and Marissa Woodmansee of Juvenile Services requested that a portion of the county mental-health appropriation be directed to Juvenile Services, telling commissioners the office served 17 youth and their families last year and that Central Kansas Mental Health Center did not respond to their outreach.
Representatives of Juvenile Services asked the Ellsworth County Commission on Jan. 20 to allocate a portion of the county's mental-health appropriation to enhance local juvenile mental-health services.
Sheriff Bernard, Casey Rolland and Marissa Woodmansee spoke to the commission, with Woodmansee stating that her office worked with 17 youths and their families in the last year in Ellsworth County and that Juvenile Services had sought assistance from Central Kansas Mental Health Center (CKMHC) without receiving a response. They asked that Juvenile Services be allotted a percentage of the county mental-health funds to supplement services and act as a local resource and liaison to court and mental-health providers.
The transcript does not record the commissioners taking a formal vote on the request or making a funding decision; it records only the request. No dollar amount or percentage was specified in the transcript provided.
