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Lavaca County approves MOU with Gulf Bend to place mental‑health caseworker alongside local deputy
Summary
The commissioners approved an MOU with Gulf Bend Behavioral Health to place a licensed caseworker with a newly funded county mental‑health deputy to form a local Critical Response Team. County leaders said the local team should shorten response times and provide both proactive outreach and on‑scene assistance.
Lavaca County Commissioners on Sept. 23 approved a memorandum of understanding with Gulf Bend Behavioral Health that assigns a licensed mental‑health caseworker to work alongside a county mental‑health deputy as part of a local Critical Response Team (CRT).
County leaders said the MOU formalizes work begun by a county law‑enforcement committee that has met monthly for a year to develop local mental‑health response capacity. “One of the things we found early on was…
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