Communities across the United States increasingly rely on mobile crisis outreach teams to handle mental health emergencies as an alternative to calling police.
Summit and Wasatch counties share the same MCOT, according to Summit County Behavioral Health Director Aaron Newman.
“Earlier this month we were able to bring on enough clinicians to where now we operate full 24/7, including all holidays,” Newman told KPCW. “When we get this program up and running in 2021 that was always a difficult component for us.”…