11/29/17 – 5:15 A.M.

The Hancock County ADAMHS board is getting a grant to expand addiction and mental health services. A release from the agency says the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services is giving ADAMHS a two-year grant worth $85,000 each year.

Director Precia Stuby says the grant will help the agency partner with the Allen-Auglaize-Hardin and Putnam County Alcohol Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services boards. They’ll put in place a new program for youth addiction services. Stuby says they’ll use “evidence-based substance use treatment strategies as well as alternative peer groups.”

ADAMHS also received a two-year federal grant for more than $149,000. They’ll use the money to improve mental health care in the county’s justice system.