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Community speakers and Trillium director press board to fund drop‑in youth mental‑health services; county clarifies funding source
Summary
Residents and Trillium leaders urged county supervisors to support a Trillium youth drop‑in program as a prevention-focused mental‑health space; county staff clarified the item in front of the board uses Behavioral Health Services Act innovation funds rather than a direct Prop 64 allocation.
Members of the public and Trillium leadership addressed the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors in support of a youth drop‑in mental‑health program before the board approved related consent items.
Michelle Carrillo, a parent with children in the Smith River schools, described difficulties young people face in accessing mental-health care locally and urged supervisors to invest in prevention and peer‑connection programs. Her daughter, Annalise Carrillo, an eighth‑grade student, told the board Trillium provided a nonjudgmental space that helped spark youth-led projects such as online-safety education.
Denise Doyle Schnacker, Director of Trillium and Community Navigator Lead, said the program on the board’s agenda focuses on mental‑health services and is distinct from Teen Court operations that Trillium also oversees. Denise told the board: “Those are two separate programs, two separate things that we’re doing.” She also said operating hours for the drop‑in center had already started to meet demand and that some state funding (Prop 64) might be awarded in the future but is not a guaranteed or current revenue source for this proposal.
County staff clarified the financing language in the board packet: the item before the board would allocate Behavioral Health innovation funds (formerly the Mental Health Services Act innovation funds, renamed under Prop 1) for the mental‑health component. A public commenter flagged that Prop 64 money had not yet been awarded and asked for accuracy; county staff and a board member responded that Prop 64 allocations are separate and that the board’s action is not an allocation of Prop 64 funds.
The board then approved the consent agenda, which included the Trillium item with the clarifying language.
What this means: The board’s approval moves forward a Trillium proposal to use county Behavioral Health innovation funds to support mental‑health drop‑in programming; Prop 64 funds remain contingent upon future state award and advisory‑group recommendation.
