Kimberley Mundil recently joined the Administrative Office of the Courts and Probation as the Assistant Deputy Administrator for Rehabilitative Services. Prior to joining the Judicial Branch, Kimberley was the Clinical Manager for Bryan Independence Center, a substance use provider for adults and adolescents, providing levels of care from evaluation, detox, outpatient, intensive outpatient, and residential care. She also worked as an on-call Crisis Response Counselor to complete suicide risk assessments for individuals in Region V.

“I look forward to working with system partners to help meet the behavioral health needs of our justice-involved youth and adults,” Mundil said.

Justice-involved individuals have access to a wide array of services to support them in successfully engaging with and completing expectations while involved with the judicial system. Rehabilitative Services is focused on the development and implementation of behavioral health and supportive services for adults and youth within Probation and Problem-Solving Courts. These services are delivered through Probation’s network of Registered Service Providers, who obtain specialized training to better understand the risk and needs of our justice populations.

Nebraska Probation is committed to reducing financial barriers, so identified individuals are afforded the opportunity to access behavioral health and other necessary services. Rehabilitative Services is working to unveil a new Provider registration process to simplify and expedite services for individuals served statewide. Rehabilitative Services is also working with the State of Nebraska Department of Behavioral Health related to competency evaluations and restoration for adults. The competency evaluation process for juveniles will also be examined. It is important that the state ensures individuals are competent to engage with the legal system or, when possible, work with services to restore competency so they can engage in the legal system and services for their success.

Photo:  Kimberley Mundil introduces speaker at Nebraska’s Behavioral Health Conference