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Mental health center urges county support to preserve mobile-crisis and school-based services

Beaufort County Council (budget workshop) · April 9, 2026
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Summary

Coastal Empire Community Mental Health said it lost a $250,000 grant and is asking Beaufort County for $112,500 to sustain its Highway to Hope mobile crisis and related services; the center also reported growing mobile crisis responses and school-clinic staffing shortages.

Coastal Empire Community Mental Health Center (presented by Angie Sally, executive director) told Beaufort County Council the center serves five counties including Beaufort and is seeking $112,500 from the county to support mobile crisis and outreach programs after a $250,000 grant was not renewed.

Sally said the center’s mobile crisis team operates 24/7 and that mobile responses…

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