New mental health court community committee to meet today
By Mike Steely
Senior Writer
steelym@knoxfocus.com
The Knox County Mental Health Court Advisory Board’s Community Coordinating Committee meets for the first time today at 2 p.m. in the Small Assembly Room of the City-County Building. The committee is to help the board navigate, research, identify and provide information for public awareness of mental health, resources and programs in the community.
The nominees will hear from Knox County IT on teams and SharePoint information from Peyton Slinger, web services specialist. The first meeting is an in-person meeting and future meetings, according to Kasey Stone, mental health court coordinator, will be held online in a Zoom format to get as many people involved as possible. She noted that the initial membership of the committee may grow as needed.
The next monthly meeting is set for August 8.
Invited to serve on the Community Coordinating Committee at Monday’s first meeting are:
– Mental Health Court representatives: Kasey Stone, court coordinator; Mary O’Neill, court case manager; and Cheryl Daugherty, detention facility nurse practitioner.
– Pre-Trial Release representatives: Lieutenant Stoney Gentry and Laken Conley, pre-release coordinator.
– Probation representative: Lori Russell, PPO II, TN Dept. of Corrections.
– Knox County Probation representative: Jack Dennis, program manager.
– District Attorney General’s Office representatives: Sam Lee, chief deputy district attorney general; and Justin Pruitt, assistant district attorney general.
– Public Defender’s Community Law Office representatives: Eric Lutton, district public defender; and Megan Newman, assistant public defender.
– Private Defense representative: Jonathan Cooper, attorney at law.
– Knox County Health Department representative: Kevin Parton, senior director.
– Knox County Recovery & Veterans Treatment Courts representative: Ron Hanaver, director.
– Knox County CAC representatives: Misty Goodwin, social services director; and Marisa Moazen, VP, Policy & Strategic Partnerships.
– Volunteer Ministry Center representative: Gabrielle Cline, chief clinical services officer.
– Treatment Provider representatives: McNabb Center‘s Candace Allen, Sr. director of adult intensive mental health services; Cherokee Health System‘s Kate La Grange, regional director of behavioral health services; and Covenant Health Peninsula‘s Mark Potts, director of clinical health.
