Opinion: Mental illness gets focus it needs with proactive San Diego County program, state proposal [Opinion]
to have run-ins with police than get medical attention, with many ending up in jail, worsening their crises.
Now programs are building off these concerns. San Diego County is expanding its use of Mobile Crisis Response Teams — which have behavioral health clinicians, case managers and peer support specialists from service providers Exodus Recovery and Telecare — to deal with some of the 35,000-plus mental health calls for service made annually to law enforcement agencies in the county.
In more serious cases, Psychiatric Emergency Response Teams — in which mental health clinicians work in tandem with uniformed officers and deputies — will continue to be used. And law enforcement officers still handle cases in which crimes, violence or threats of violence have occurred.in The San Diego Union-Tribune detailed, the county’s mobile crisis teams offer promise with their proactive bent.
Launched in January 2021 in the North Coastal region, Mobile Crisis Response Teams are now available countywide, using 16 teams. National City Police Chief Jose Tellez has high praise for the teams, saying they get people the care they need while freeing up officers to deal with serious crimes. But National City and Chula Vista are the only local cities in which people can reach Mobile Crisis Response Teams by calling 911 so far.
This overdue recognition that old practices don’t cut it has reached the state level as well. On Thursday at a news conference in San Jose, with San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria at his side, Gov. Gavin Newsomthe establishment of Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment Courts for people with debilitating psychosis.
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