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Board accepts $250,000 Sherwood Foundation grant to continue jail intensive outpatient program
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The board accepted a $250,000 Sherwood Foundation grant to continue a co-occurring disorder intensive outpatient program inside the Douglas County Correctional Center after the federal BJA grant expires; the program provides 10 hours per week over 10 weeks and the board approved the agreement as part of the consent agenda.
The Douglas County Board of Commissioners accepted a one-year $250,000 grant from the Sherwood Foundation to continue an intensive outpatient program (IOP) for incarcerated individuals with co-occurring substance use and mental-health diagnoses.
Sarah Baker, director of outpatient services at the Douglas County Community Mental Health Center, told the board the IOP has been run inside the Douglas County Correctional Center since 2023 with federal funding from a Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) grant that is expiring Sept. 30. "This is a one-year grant to continue funding the intensive outpatient program," Baker said, adding the Sherwood Foundation awarded the funds to sustain programming through 06/30/2027.
Baker described the program as ten hours of therapeutic treatment per week over a 10-week course that combines group and individual therapy; participants must have both a substance-use diagnosis and a mental-health diagnosis. She confirmed the county is not the primary funder: "That is correct," she said, when asked whether Sherwood money is a substitute for the federal grant.
Commissioners asked for more detail about recurring Sherwood awards and requested that staff place documentation in the record about the grant amounts and program details. The acceptance of the Sherwood agreement was recorded as part of the consent agenda vote and passed 6–0. The clerk later noted a minor edit to the resolution to explicitly authorize the named signatory to execute the agreement on the county’s behalf.
