The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health is set to brief the Human Services Commission on Wednesday about the county’s mental health crisis response protocols, including the operations of its Psychiatric Mobile Response Teams and law enforcement collaboration programs.
Miriam Brown, deputy director of the department’s Emergency Outreach and Triage Division, is scheduled to deliver the presentation. The briefing addresses a key priority area for the commission, which has been working through an ad hoc committee on mental health and crisis response throughout the current fiscal year. The Human Services Commission is an advisory body, and the City Council retains final authority on any related policy recommendations.
The Emergency Outreach and Triage Division serves all of Los Angeles County and operates several field response programs. These include Psychiatric Mobile Response Teams, also known as Mobile Crisis Outreach Teams; Law Enforcement Teams; School Threat Assessment Response Teams; Critical Incident and Disaster Response; and therapeutic transportation teams…