Mental health help calls on the rise Deanna Bonn Butler County Times Gazette Pam Dunham, Chair, and Tanner Brown, led the meeting and lunch was hosted and provided by Butler County Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Butler County Community Development, and Misfit Kitchen. Amy Collins and Jena Prichard did not have happy news when the representatives of the South Central Mental Health recently gave a presentation to the Local Area Planning Committee on the mental health effects of COVID-19. Collins informed the group of the differences they saw from the beginning of the pandemic through the current time. She discussed how they noticed a decline in calls, and office visits in the beginning. However, by the summer and fall of 2020, they started to see a steep increase in calls and office visits.