Summary
Minnehaha County near South Dakota’s southeastern border is the state’s most-populous county. It has agreed to participate in a planning process to implement a Community Triage Center (CTC) to expedite and provide client-centered care to high-level service users (jail, in patient, emergency room) suffering from overlapping mental health and substance use issues. Locally, the CTC model will provide an interdisciplinary partnership between health care, the justice system, and community stakeholders to improve support services to meet community needs and provide alternatives to incarceration.