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Heidi Pallares, a spokesperson for Mind OC, told LAist in a statement that the organization and the city had mutually agreed to sunset their agreement. Anaheim and five other cities — Garden Grove, Irvine, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach and Westminster — contract with Mind OC for mobile crisis response teams. The teams respond to non-violent mental health and substance use crisesThe mobile teams also worked in Newport Beach, but the City Council voted to cut short the city’s contract with the organization at the end of August.
She said the city had other personnel and outside contracts to do street outreach with people experiencing homelessness, and a partnership with the county to provide part-time mental health response.
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