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Show Social Services unification! i OK'd for Southeast Utah i I Unification of social services in San I Juan County and its possible impact on ' the Four Corners Mental Health program ! was the subject of that board's regular monthly meeting, held in Green River last week. Due to the complexity of the guidelines I written into federal grants which fund the I largest portion of the center, a contract j between Mental Health and San Juan County was agreed upon to protect the I center and to keep it within the guidelines. I At the meeting Commission Chairman I Eddie Boyle stated that it was the opinion ' of the San Juan commissioners that social ! services to the people in San Juan could I be improved if they were unified under one administration. He reported it is also I the plan for the service-providing I agencies to be co-located in the future in ' one building. ! The contract which was approved left all administration in the hands of Travis Campbell, director of the Four Corners Mental Health Center. All hiring and t firing of staff for mental health will remain with him. He presented Bruce I Shumway. San Juan social services ' director, with a letter clarifying the administration and supervision roles. The approval of the contract was given j with the provision that there would be no extra costs or diminished services to I Carbon. Emery or Grand Counties. Also included is an option that either San Juan j CoLnty or Four Corners Mental Health i would have the opportunity to cancel the contract upon 30 days prior notice. In addition, it was agreed to by those I present, including board members and ' mental health staff persons, that San J Juan County ask the state to request i waivers on several of the federal j guidelines under which the mental health I center currently operates, in order that the slaff in San Juan can come under the unification system in all areas, including i administration. Until such time as these are received the center, in San Juan, will remain I basically intact. |