Virginia Approves $7 Million Contract With G4S For Alternative Transportation For Crisis Mental Health

On May 7, 2019, the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) issued a notice of intent to award a contract valued at $7 million with G4S to provide alternative statewide transportation for people experiencing a mental health crisis who are under a temporary detention order (TDO). The contract is slated to begin in the summer of 2019, and will run for two years, followed with an option for extension. Alternative transportation is expected to change how children and adults under a court directed TDO are transported from the evaluation site to inpatient psychiatric treatment.

Virginia law requires . . .