The Mesa County Commission approved a $674,000 grant agreement between the Colorado Department of Human Services Behavioral Health Administration and the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office.

The funding supports jail-based behavioral health services, including substance-use-disorder treatment, opioid-use-disorder treatment and mental-health services for people in custody, the county said in a news release. According to the Sheriff’s Office, the programs provided services to about 450 people through its substance-use-disorder program and about 200 people through its opioid-use-disorder program in 2025.

Colorado law requires county-operated detention facilities to provide substance-use and mental-health treatment services. Mesa County provides those services in partnership with its contracted medical provider, NaphCare Inc. The grant helps cover the cost of continuing these programs during state fiscal year 2027.