The Douglas County Commission at its meeting Wednesday approved bids from Mar Lan Construction and Turner Construction to serve as construction managers at risk for housing portions of the behavioral health campus and an expansion of the Douglas County Jail, respectively.
Mar Lan, the low bid, will complete preconstruction services for behavioral health housing for $5,000.
Turner, the high bid for the jail ...
Douglas County commissioners at their Wednesday meeting will consider bids for construction managers at risk for two projects: an expansion of the Douglas County Jail, and housing components of the behavioral health campus.
Commissioners Michelle Derusseau and Nancy Thellman have long supported an expansion of the jail, citing poor conditions for inmates, overcrowding and the need to house inmates in other ...
Although plans aren’t yet fully fleshed out, the Douglas County Commission will consider a proposed drug court as part of its budget process for 2020.
As part of ongoing efforts to provide alternatives to incarceration and reduce recidivism, particularly for those with substance use disorders, leaders in Douglas County’s criminal justice system have been considering adding a second specialty court. The ...
The Douglas County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council will meet Tuesday, and among items on its agenda are proposals for a drug court and for a study that could have implications for a proposed expansion of the local jail.
County commissioners attended a work session on drug court in April, the Journal-World reported. There, a staff member told them that in her previous experience in Cass County, Mo., a ...
The Douglas County Behavioral Health Prevention Summit returns on June 25, and it’s grown a bit since its debut last year.
The summit features two keynote speakers on topics of the future of cannabis policy and fentanyl, new drugs and prevention, according to its agenda. Then three breakout sessions will offer four topics apiece, including opioids, trauma, suicide intervention, human trafficking, vaping and ...
“Help is available.”
Monica Kurz told Douglas County commissioners that’s a phrase she uses all the time in her work.
“It's a message I want to put out there, and it's a message that needs to be true,” the director of Headquarters’ Kansas Suicide Prevention Resource Center said during the commission’s Wednesday work session on the Zero Suicide initiative.
She explained: “We think that there's ...
