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Mental Health Services asks Clark County for one-year bridge funding as state grant ends
Summary
Kelly Rigger, CEO of Mental Health Services for Clark and Madison Counties, told the commissioners the agency is losing State Opiate and Stimulant Grant funding after Sept. 2025 and requested short-term county support (they had applied for $500,000 and expected $300,000) while pursuing Federally Qualified Health Center look-alike status and expanding 24/7 mobile crisis response accessed via 988.
Kelly Rigger, CEO of Mental Health Services for Clark and Madison Counties, told the Board of Clark County Commissioners on Nov. 19 that the agency is losing a State Opiate and Stimulant Grant that funded full-time primary care services and asked the county to consider bridge funding for calendar year 2026.
"We had applied for $500,000, but we would have been receiving $300,000," Rigger said, asking whether the county could provide temporary support while MHS pursues Federally Qualified Health Center look-alike status.
Rigger outlined services MHS operates…
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