In an effort to engage and inform our community members of the efforts put forth by varying agencies in the Salina and Saline County area, we will be holding an educational forum to discuss developments in the cross-sections of mental health, substance abuse, criminal justice, and homelessness. This forum is to help facilitate growth, improvement, and change in these areas through discussion with our community members.



Please indicate what areas you are most interested in learning about and/or have the most concern in regard to actions taken within our community.

Topic: Homelessness

* Housing Options
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* Causes of Homelessness
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* Data on the success of current programs
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Topic: Crisis response related to mental health

* Learning about how co-responder units operate
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* Salina’s plan for co-responders
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* Crisis Centers- information on function, location, and costs.
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* CIT (Crisis Intervention Training), how it operates, benefits, history
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Topic: Alcohol and substance abuse

* Prevention efforts- both in the high schools and in overdose prevention.
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* Overdose data
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* Substance abuse treatment programs
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Topic: Criminal Justice Approaches

* Specialty Courts (e.g drug courts)
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* What the jail is doing in regard to programming and reduction of recidivism rates.
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* How the new jail will operate.
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* What do you see as the biggest concern for our community?
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To prepare for our educational forum in advance, please indicate any questions you would want to ask our panel. Our goal is to be able to answer questions efficiently and thoroughly during presentations in that we have time to properly engage in questions and discussions with community members during the forum.
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