After years of seeing Missoula students with increasingly severe mental health problems entering the juvenile justice system, Chief Juvenile Probation Officer C
The mobile unit’s success and growing demand among Missoula schools led to a new collaboration with Missoula County to fund an expansion to elementary and high schools.
The Jail Diversion Master Plan was written and adopted in 2016 and included roughly 40 recommendations across a number of categories, such as pre-sentencing and behavioral health.