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Livingston and Park County roll out mobile crisis response team and expand 988 linkage
Summary
The city and county are launching a co-responder mobile crisis team to provide immediate, trauma-informed in-person support for behavioral health calls and to route 988 callers to local response when needed; commissioners praised the expansion and staff said the team expects rapid-response capacity with telehealth backup.
City and county officials described a new mobile crisis response program intended to provide immediate, trauma-informed support to residents experiencing behavioral-health crises and to divert people from unnecessary hospitalization or arrest.
Kelly Miller, manager of the program (BRIDAL), said the model builds on an existing peer-support follow-up role and will add on-call crisis responders who can be dispatched with or without law…
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