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Medina County board hears mental-health service volumes, crisis metrics and plans for more recovery housing
Summary
MHRB Executive Director Phillip Titterington reported partner agencies served 7,079 clients (Jan–Mar), described crisis engagements and noted pressure from forensic commitments; he highlighted recovery-housing expansions and said Hope Recovery Community received a visit from 'Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'
MHRB Executive Director Phillip Titterington told the Medina County commissioners on May 12 that partner agencies (Alternative Paths, Guidestone, Catholic Charities) served a total of 7,079 clients between January and March, with 91% adults and 9% youth.
Titterington said 31% of adults and 35% of youth received psychiatric services during that period and that 60% of youth clients were diagnosed with a serious emotional disorder or disturbance. He described continued pressure from forensic cases occupying state facility bed space, which the county is covering through civil commitments in private facilities; individuals in forensic status require competency hearings and long-term community monitoring, he said.
On crisis services, Alternative Paths’ 24/7 crisis helpline recorded 848 crisis engagements during the reporting period, including 51 people verbalizing suicidal thoughts and 83 direct law-enforcement referrals; the local LOSS team was dispatched four times. The Hope Recovery Community’s 24/7 Hope Link received 217 calls and linked 87 people to detox, residential treatment or recovery housing. The board heard that the county has 44 male and 3 female recovery beds, and that Hope Recovery Community is converting a former Towne Motel into recovery housing for men, women and families.
Titterington noted the board’s Level 3 women’s recovery house currently has 11 of 12 beds filled. He also noted a visit the previous Thursday by "Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.," who toured the Hope Recovery Community and participated in a roundtable; Titterington said the Secretary expressed interest in modeling Medina County’s recovery approach elsewhere.
