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 Mental Health Drug and Alcohol Services Board of Logan and Champaign Counties presents Stepping Up Ohio Countywide Meeting, taking place virtually on April 10, 2025 from 10:30am-2:00 pm, and featuring presentations on mental illness and the criminal justice population. Mental Health Drug and Alcohol Services Board of Logan and Champaign Counties is proud to bring the Stepping Up Ohio team to Logan County for the first time. The meeting will provide updates on the work Logan County has done since becoming a Stepping Up county and be a chance for state partners to share information about resources available to Logan County. Stepping Up Ohio, a chapter of the national Stepping Up initiative, is a statewide effort to break the cycle of jail being the de facto mental health hospital. The mission of both the national and Ohio’s Stepping Up initiative is to help criminal offenders with mental illness get connected to clinical treatment and other services so they can get well, make positive life changes, and stay out of jail. An estimated 30% of Ohio’s inmates have a mental illness, and anywhere from two to three times more taxpayer money is spent on incarcerated adults with mental illness who require intervention. Without access to proper treatment and stabilization services, people with mental illness can return to incarceration again and again.
Stepping Up Ohio assists counties in unifying existing community supports for people with mental illness as well as connecting them to new or previously untapped free state and national resources. The Stepping Up Ohio team will convene a cross section of local stakeholders, including behavioral health treatment providers; law enforcement; specialty court dockets; and housing, veteran, and other support services providers. State partners will co-present with local leaders on topics such as:
The meeting is free and open to the public. Contact Sarah Ferguson at [email protected], 945-465-1045 for registration information. For more information about Stepping Up Ohio, visit https://mha.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/mha/community-partners/criminal-justice/stepping-up-initiative/stepping-up-initiative or email Evelyn Stratton at [email protected]. To learn more about the Stepping Up initiative in this community, contact Sarah Ferguson at 945-465-1045. Directed by Ohio Supreme Court Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton (retired) along with other state and county leaders, Stepping Up Ohio is supported by the CSG Justice Center and is generously funded by Peg’s Foundation Comments are closed.
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