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Horizon Behavioral Health outlines expanded crisis, housing and school programs for Campbell-area residents
Summary
Horizon Behavioral Health told the Board of Supervisors about new and existing programs including mobile response and co-responder teams, a planned crisis receiving center, the TREE tobacco-prevention grant serving Campbell and neighboring localities, and a rise in in-person visits.
Melissa Lucey, a representative of Horizon Behavioral Health, presented the agency's annual update to the county board at the April meeting, describing program expansions that the agency says aim to reduce hospital readmissions and improve local crisis response.
Horizon highlighted recently launched community-based initiatives: co-responder teams that pair clinicians with law-enforcement responders and mobile response teams that provide on-scene crisis intervention. Lucey told the board those services began responding in the summer of 2024 and are intended to provide alternatives to emergency department admissions.
Nut graf: Horizon also updated the board on its TREE grant work in schools and on development of a local crisis receiving center. The agency said it has connected 27 individuals with severe mental illness to…
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