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Board approves restructuring of crisis response; encourages non-police teams and offers cities options to keep PERT
Summary
The Board of Supervisors voted Sept. 30 to restructure the county's behavioral-health crisis response, centering the county's MCRT program while enabling cities to contract for PERT-style co-response teams and requiring a plan to track outcomes across models.
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors on Sept. 30 approved a reorganization of the county’s crisis response framework that moves the county toward a Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT) model and non-law-enforcement trust teams while offering a pathway for cities that want to continue the Psychiatric Emergency Response Team (PERT) co-response approach to do so through community-contracted providers.
Behavioral Health Services staff presented the recommendation after consultations with multiple cities. Under the approved approach, the county will…
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