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• Provided flexible state funding for community-based providers for mental health treatment and social services
• Increased substance use disorder treatment funding
• Increased agility and sustainability of substance use and mental health treatment services statewide and across timeframes of justice- involved individuals (school, pre-charge, pretrial, prison, reentry)
• Expanded the capacity for the seriously mentally ill to be assessed and treated outside the
corrections system
• Expanded re-entry services for beneficiaries returning from the criminal justice system
After his accident it was incredibly stressful, we had constant decisions to make. Knowing there were resources out there took some of that stress off—we had plenty of stress without even thinking about the financial aspect of it.
— Parent of Trust Beneficiary, Juneau