Mental health advocates gather to help inmates
BOWLING GREEN, Ky.- Dozens of Bowling Green city leaders, law enforcement officers and mental health advocates gathered at Hillview Heights church to discuss a new way to help people who are incarcerated and struggling with their mental health.
The topics that were discussed focused on how mental health-related illnesses are connected to most crimes, and how to give inmates resources and tools that will eliminate stress.
Jennifer Van Ort-Hazzard, a behavior health liaison tells us the cause of stress. She says, “So much of what I hear in therapy are things like ‘take your medicine and manage your stress’, but then you’re also working through this situation that is building on your stresses.”
Mental health court begins in Bowling Green in January. News 40 will continue to keep you up to date with this story
