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Local provider pitches behavioral health diversion center; commissioners back resolution
Summary
Ashley Gonzales of Beyond Borders Mental Health Center urged the court to support a Starr County Behavioral Health Diversion Center to provide crisis treatment instead of incarceration; the court approved a resolution in support.
Ashley Gonzales, owner of Beyond Borders Mental Health Center in Rio Grande City, presented a proposal for a behavioral health diversion center intended to provide crisis treatment as an alternative to incarceration. "I'm the owner of Beyond Borders Mental Health Center in Rio Grande City," Gonzales said, describing the proposal as designed to "provide individuals, experiencing mental health... with treatment instead of incarceration" and to reduce strain on law enforcement and the jail system.
The judge and commissioners discussed the shortage of beds in the border region and the burden of transporting patients to San Antonio and beyond. The court voted to approve a resolution in support of the Starr County Behavioral Health Diversion Center initiative; no funding commitment or implementation timeline was recorded in the transcript.
