Tri-County Mental Health Hires Three New Community Behavioral Health Liaisons

Local law enforcement can rely on Tri-County’s increased team of mental health partners KANSAS CITY, MO. – Tri-County Mental Health added three new Community Behavioral Health Liaisons (CBHLs) strengthening this important community mental health initiative and quadrupling the number of staff in this area. “Now that we’ve gone from one staff person to four, we [...]

December 2nd, 2021|

Tri-County CEO Discusses Mental Health and Drugs

Tom Petrizzo, CEO of Tri-County Mental Health Services, was quoted in a recent article in Flatland, Kansas City PBS’ digital magazine. The article examines how drug addiction and untreated mental health issues contribute to high crime rates in rural Missouri. It focuses attention on Ray County, one of the counties served by Tri-County, which had [...]

October 13th, 2021|

Northland Grandfamilies

Tri-County Mental Health Services is the new manager of the Northland Grandfamilies community support and resource group. This successful community organization provides a support and gathering for those in a kinship role of caring for a youth family member. The group offers a time for sharing, support, resources and free community events. As a new [...]

June 29th, 2021|

Northland Treatment Courts Achieve Success

Tri-County Mental Health Services saves hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars, prevents crime, and helps individuals in our community break the cycle of alcohol and other drug addiction through its participation in the Treatment Court programs. Through six Treatment Courts in Clay, Platte and Ray Counties, the focus is on the underlying mental health issues [...]

March 26th, 2021|

Tri-County to Serve as Part of Statewide Crisis Counseling Program

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Mental Health was awarded a grant to provide behavioral health services to those who are emotionally troubled by the pandemic and Tri-County Mental Health Services has been selected as one of the more than 20 partner agencies throughout the state of Missouri. Olivia Booher, Tri-County's Director [...]

July 2nd, 2020|

Time for Action – Tri-County CEO Message

After the shocking video of the death of George Floyd became public, I started monitoring the public statements made by large corporations, such as Ford, General Motors, Google, Amazon and others. They were all very similar in that they publicly denounced any form of racism or injustice based on race or ethnicity. However, the GM statement [...]

June 11th, 2020|
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