10 New Officer-Clinician Teams Devoted to Mental Health 911 Calls [NBCSanDiego.com]

Samantha Sangenito 8/13/1512:00 PM

The county of San Diego is putting more resources toward handling mental health-related emergency calls with 10 new teams devoted to those incidents.

This fiscal year, the county is giving an extra $1.6 million to its Psychiatric Emergency Response Teams (PERT), which pairs a sheriff’s deputy or police officer with a licensed mental health clinician.

[For more of this story, written by Andie Adams, go to http://www.nbcsandiego.com/new...1.html#ixzz3iibx3hKJ]

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