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Health and behavioral-health briefings: staff cuts, opioid grant-funded programming and crisis services
Summary
The Health Department announced an HFI-funded receptionist position will be eliminated due to funding cuts; True Hope described opioid-grant-funded program expansion and a 24% client increase since August; Southwestern Behavioral Healthcare reported crisis-call volume and sought law-enforcement and school partnerships.
County health and social-service providers briefed commissioners on funding, staffing and local behavioral-health services. The Gibson County Health Department (speaker 8) said Health First Indiana (HFI) funding has been reduced and that one HFI-funded receptionist/secretary position will be eliminated effective Dec. 31; staff said the change is driven by funding rather than employee misconduct and that the union will be notified…
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