Nevada County Team Leadership participating in Stepping Up initiative (theunion.com)
Nevada County is participating in a National initiative called Stepping Up, aimed at addressing the issue of mental illness in jail. Stepping Up is a National initiative to reduce the number of people with mental illnesses in jail, according to its website. Each year, there are an estimated 2 million people with serious mental illnesses admitted to jails across the nation. That’s equivalent to the populations of Vermont and New Hampshire combined. Almost three-fourths of these adults also...