Georgia Pines CSB YJMHCP

Georgia Pines Community Service Board is proposing to launch a school-based mental health Co-Responder program to serve students of Colquitt County. The Co-Responder program will introduce behavioral health specialists to assist the existing School Resource Officers with real-time responses to incidents involving students with severe mental illness, addiction, and intellectual and developmental disabilities. The Co-Responder program will leverage mental health crisis intervention to help divert youth with behavioral needs from becoming justice involved by assisting students who are experiencing crisis in school, responding to domestic violence or trauma, counseling children whose parents may be arrested, and providing quality interventions (or linking to appropriate services) for mental health issues, addiction, and suicidal behaviors.