Henry County Commission starts initiative to improve mental health resources in county jail

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When the Alabama County Commission Association met to set goals for the year, improving mental health services at the local level was on the list.

Mental Health America reports Alabama is in the bottom four states with a high prevalence of mental illness and low rates of mental healthcare access.HENRY COUNTY, Ala. -

The Henry County Commission is setting out on an initiative to do something about this, starting with inmates. ”The partnership with Spectracare coming in and having a representative to evaluate people that are in the jail that may have mental issues. So it is a totality of all of it and putting that together with officers on the street,” Henry County Sheriff Eric Blankenship said.

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