The Mansfield Municipal Mental Health Court will mark off seven in a ceremony at 11 a.m. Mansfield’s Mental Health Court started in 2004, the result of a teamwork among Mansfield Muni Court, The Center for Individual and Family Services, ichland County Mental Health and Recovery Services Board and the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Richland County. It was the third of its kind in Ohio. It was developed to coordinate court supervision services with treatment providers to divert non-violent wrong offenders with severe mental illness from repeated encounters with law enforcement and the jails by increasing treatment compliance and access to services.
Services include medication, housing, counseling, case management, crisis intervention, education and employment. The project has required no additional backing from Mansfield or Richland County residents. The voluntary diversion program provides strong supervision of offenders involving home visits, curfew checks, drug and alcohol testing and increased communication with the treatment providers. The length of a participant’s involvement in the program is determined by their individual needs and growth and by community safety needs. The court has served over 300 participants; 69 have successfully completed the program.
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