Background & Approach
Natrona County is the second most populous county in Wyoming and has actively strengthened cross-system collaboration and momentum created before and during their 2021 Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) Mapping Workshop. Individuals with lived experience now provide support groups, and training within the jail and the county has expanded the number of case managers working on their jail reentry program through the Natrona Collective Health Trust. As part of the IMPACT Network, they focus on early intervention, law enforcement responses, and initial detention and court hearings. They have developed a crisis response continuum, a local navigation center for resource connection, and a housing task force. Natrona leadership is also building grant-writing capacity and partnering with the Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center to perform cost analysis around behavioral health services and incarceration.