A Nevada County group is working to establish a volunteer-run hotline to help and potentially provide alternatives to the sheriff’s team for mental health crises and homeless people in distress
the following year, allowing for court-ordered outpatient treatment in Nevada and about two dozen other counties that have since adopted the measure.team in San Diego County
One recent case involved a homeless man who threatened to kill himself because his dog had been taken and he couldn’t afford to get it out of the shelter. Alvarado, the clinician on the team, said he contacted the county homeless outreach program, which paid the shelter bill for the man’s dog and then set him up with a caseworker.
Alvarado’s bulletproof vest sat upright in the backseat of the truck like another passenger. Though Spittler is required by the department to wear his vest at all times, Alvarado tries to avoid it on most calls to draw a distinction between his role and that of law enforcement — and also, he says, because he doesn’t want to look like a “poser.”
While Spittler and the other deputy pulled the woman aside to ask about her wrist, Alvarado spoke to her partner, who towered in the door frame, snacking on a handful of nuts. Alvarado suggested that he try to reassure the woman when she told him she was seeing things outside, rather than walking away and shaking his head.
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