After tackling the issues of criminal justice and affordable rental housing in previous years, JUST Pensacola is now looking to improve access to mental health resources in Escambia County.
The coalition of interfaith congregations began working to determine which issue to pursue last fall, with about 350 people breaking out in groups of ten to share their issues and concerns.
“That information is shared with a group of 76 community members, who focused on what we heard and to decide to narrow it to a specific issue, which we heard loud and clear was about mental health,” said Bishop George Young, interim rector of St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church and member of JUST Pensacola’s mental health steering committee…