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Vigo County health staff win NAMI award; officials highlight jail-based Seeking Safety program and completion tracking
Summary
At a Vigo County Health Board meeting, staff said the department won a NAMI award for cross-sector work on a jail-based Seeking Safety program and clarified how program completion and recidivism are tracked, noting only one completed participant had been rearrested by the time of the report.
Vigo County health department staff said the department won a National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) award for cross-sector collaboration and described results from a jail-connected version of the Seeking Safety program.
Molly, a member of the health department staff, told the board the department presented its jail program at the NAMI summit and had been asked by other counties to share the model. "Our team when I say our team, I mean the whole health department won the NAMI award," Molly said, describing the…
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