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Rural communities can face many challenges when developing and delivering crisis response programs for people with behavioral health conditions and intellectual and developmental disabilities, including wide geographic areas to serve, limitations in options for local treatment and social services, and resource constraints related to funding and staffing.
NCCJD Attorney Fellow Ariel Simms provided an in person presentation at the National Legal Aid and Defender Association in June 2017 with 35 attendees.
NCCJD Attorney Fellow Ariel Simms provided an in person webinar, which was also recorded for NACDL's CLE Institute, on serving clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities with 75 participants.
