TREASURE COAST — The call no one wants to get.
The phone rings at 2 a.m. A mother in Port St. Lucie is panicked: her teenage son has stopped taking his medication and is threatening to hurt himself. The dispatcher dials a different kind of number this time, 211 — not just police, but the Mobile Response Team at New Horizons of the Treasure Coast.
Within an hour — by law, within 60 minutes — a licensed clinician will arrive. That’s the promise. And on the Treasure Coast, where homelessness, addiction, and mental illness intersect daily, it’s a promise that can mean the difference between life and death…