New director for Madera County Behavioral Health Services Department

MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Before becoming the manager of the Behavioral Health Services Department successful Madera County, Chrissie Doss worked successful different areas similar kid payment and nationalist health.

She says her inheritance successful those fields has prepared her for the task.

"It helped maine to recognize the value of having beardown relationships with different region agencies, arsenic good arsenic the community-based organizations," she said.

Madera County's Behavioral Health Services Department provides intelligence wellness help, arsenic good arsenic substance maltreatment treatments.

Doss has been connected the occupation for astir 2 weeks and already has a wide imaginativeness for the department.

"One happening I would truly emotion to spot for Madera County is america summation entree to attraction and marque it arsenic casual arsenic imaginable for the assemblage members to get into attraction crossed the county," she said.

Doss adds boosting resources and assistance for radical passim Madera County is vital.

"Increasing our substance usage services, situation services are big, and housing," she said. "Housing close present is immense successful Oakhurst."

She besides spoke astir which programs she would similar to spot grow.

"One inaugural that's travel guardant is the Drug Medical Organized Delivery System, which is fundamentally expanding our substance usage attraction services," she said. "We privation to bash immoderate intensive outpatient treatment. We privation to look astatine however we tin link amended with residential facilities."

Doss adds she wants to propulsion past the barriers that forestall radical from reaching retired by connecting them with the close help.

While taking connected a caller relation tin beryllium daunting, she is acceptable to bash the enactment to service the community.

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