• Date Due: November 01, 2022
  • Author: Compensation Board
  • Enabling Authority: Appropriation Act - Item 72 P. (Special Session I, 2022)
  • Description:
    Progress report on the implementation of adding behavioral health case managers and medical treatment positions in local and regional jails, including but not limited to the amount of funding allocated to each jail and how the jail utilized the funding, behavioral health screening and assessment of individuals committed to local correctional facilities, the type of mental health services provided, the number of individuals with serious mental illness assessed as requiring behavioral health services who (i) needed and (ii) received discharge planning upon release from the local correctional facility, and barriers to implementing the initiative.