LA County funds mobile teams to help those in mental health trouble. But few want these jobs. How to attract workers?
from rolling out to help people in distress on 911 calls, and from addressing the mental health of the homeless. Of the 69,000 unhoused in L.A. County, 25% to 50% have a mental illness, according to various survey data.
Mental Evaluation Teams respond to 911 calls involving people with mental illness, but the teams have been hampered by worker shortages. The county’s April 4 report said there were six mental health clinician vacancies in MET. Sycamores operates just two Mobile Crisis Outreach Teams “because they are facing the same challenges as the Department of Mental Health in hiring and retention. As a result, the mobile crisis services are still not running 24/7 in the county,” read the April 4 report.
The county recently allocated $152 million from state and federal grants to expand its Psychiatric Mobile Response Teams and call centers for people dialing 998 for mental health help. Last year, the county Department of Mental Health decided to fund 50 response teams with the goal of operating nights and weekends. But as of April 4, only 33 teams were operating due to high vacancies, according to the county report.
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