Behind the Badge
Best of BTB: A county in Missouri and its new clinician innovate bold new approach to monitor and address mental health
0Editor’s note: As part of our 10th anniversary, Behind the Badge is sharing stories from our archives on Tuesdays and Fridays. This story is from May 10, 2022. May is Mental Health Awareness Month. For years, despite a successful private practice in Harrisonville, Mo., Dr. Scott Maid considered it part of his civic duty to be available to the Cass County Missouri Sheriff’s Office as an on-call licensed behavioral health consultant. Over the years, the need for his services grew and in January he was hired as the first full-time Director of Behavioral Sciences at the Sheriff’s Office in the…
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