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Committee on Health, Hospitals and Human Services
The Committee on Health, Hospitals & Human Services has scheduled a hearing to receive testimony on the following:
 
BR 21-0244
      A bill amending, restructuring, reclassifying and adopting the first comprehensive Virgin Islands Behavioral Health Act that addresses services and interdepartmental coordination of agencies and organizations to provide a structure of support to individuals throughout the Virgin Islands who suffer from behavioral health challenges and establishes community behavioral health services, as well as provides for the first comprehensive public behavioral health facility to treat individuals voluntarily and involuntarily who face behavioral health challenges
 
Invited Testifiers: 
The Honorable Justa E. Encarnacion
, Commissioner, Virgin Islands Department of Health
The Honorable Denise N. George, 
Esq., Attorney General of the US Virgin Islands
The Honorable Ray A. Martinez
, Commissioner, Virgin Islands Police Department
Sheryl Pogson,
 President, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Lori Thompson, PhD,
 Psychologist, Insight Psychological Services, LLC
Tina Comissiong, Esq
., Chief Executive Officer, Schneider Regional Medical Center
Christopher E. Finch
, Chairman, Virgin Islands Government Health and Hospital Corporation
Wynnie Testamark
, Director, Virgin Islands Bureau of Corrections
Samuel Joseph, Esq
., Chief Public Defender, Office of the Territorial Public Defender
Alisha Udhwani, Esq.,
 President, VI Bar Association
 
 
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Alisha Udhwani Esq.
, 
Attorney General of the US Virgin Islands
, 
Behavioral Health Act
, 
BR 21-0244
, 
Christopher E. Finch
, 
Lori Thompson PhD
, 
Samuel Joseph Esq
, 
Sheryl Pogson
, 
The Honorable Denise N. George Esq.
, 
The Honorable Justa E. Encarnacion
, 
The Honorable Ray A. Martinez
, 
Tina Comissiong Esq
, 
Virgin Islands Department of Health
, 
Wynnie Testamark
 
Date
Jun 29 2022
Expired!
 
Time
 
12:30 pm
 
 
Location
Frits E. Lawaetz Legislative Conference Room
St. Croix
 
Category
 
Health, Hospitals and Human Services
 
Organizer
 
Senator Novelle E. Francis, Jr.
 
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(340) 773-2424
 
Email
 
senatorfrancis@legvi.org
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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