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Manager, Mental Health Diversion Alternatives Office of Forensic Services
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| Joe Krake |
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Joe Krake
Phone: (614) 466-5232
Email: Krakej@mhmail.mh.state.oh.us
Joe Krake is employed in the Office of Forensic Services as the manager of mental health diversion alternatives for the Ohio Department of Mental Health. Mental health courts, police crisis intervention teams, assertive community treatment teams and other alternatives have become increasingly popular methods of reducing criminalization for persons with mental illness.
Mr. Krake also serves as one of three coordinators in the Community Linkage program, which arranges for continuity of care for inmates entering or leaving the prison system. He is the ODMH lead for the Coordinating Center of Excellence in Mental Health and Criminal Justice. Joe serves on several inter-agency committees, including the Supreme Court of Ohio Committee on Mentally Ill and the Courts, ODRC Reentry State Partners, the Ohio Brain Injury Advisory Council, and Partners in Justice.
Joe holds a Master of Science degree in therapeutic recreation from Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. He is a licensed social worker. Joe?s previous employment includes serving as mental health administrator at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio?s maximum security prison. For five years, Joe was manager of the Flower Pot Greenhouse, a horticulture therapy and vocational program at Richmond State Hospital in Richmond, IN.
Joe currently serves as president of Scioto County Habitat for Humanity. He and his wife Mary Ann attend Stockdale United Methodist Church, and live on 35 acres outside of Lucasville in Scioto County with their many pet dogs and cats.
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