Public Hearing: YES ? NO ? Department: Chief Executive Office
SUBJECT:
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Commission District(s): All Commission Districts
Appoint Dr. Candice Norris-Brown to Post 8 of the DeKalb County Community Service Board.
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Information Contact: Lorraine Cochran-Johnson, Chief Executive Officer
Phone Number: 404-371-2881
PURPOSE:
Pursuant to Section 13A of the DeKalb County Organizational Act and the state law establishing county community service boards, CEO Cochran-Johnson nominates Dr. Candice Norris-Brown for appointment to Post 8 of the DeKalb County Community Service Board. This appointment is for a three (3) year term that will expire June 30, 2026. Dr. Norris-Brown will serve her first term that began July 1, 2023, filling the vacant seat previously occupied by John Bushfield, whose term ended June 30, 2023.
NEED/IMPACT:
The DeKalb County Community Service Board provides mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive disease services to children and adults in DeKalb County as Claratel Health. The Community Service Board is the governing authority overseeing Claratel Health's executive operations. Per state law DeKalb County's Community Service Board has ten (10) at-large appointees from the public and three (3) elected officials. Appointees serve three (3) year terms and can be reappointed indefinitely.
The at-large members must be either a consumer of disability services; a psychiatrist; a psychologist or other behavioral health or development disabilities professional; a law enforcement officer; a family member of a consumer a disability services; an advocate for disability services; parents of a child with mental illness or addictive disease; and/or a local leader or businessperson with an interest in mental health, developmental disabilities, and/or addictive diseases.
Dr. Norris-Brown is a mental health clinician with more than two decades of extensive experience in...
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