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City updates SA CORE: three 24/7 mental-health response teams log ~4,800 responses
Summary
City mental-health officials briefed the committee on SA CORE expansion, ARPA-funded counseling contracts and crisis-response metrics, reporting roughly 4,800 multidisciplinary responses year-to-date and improvements in follow-up contact; councilmembers sought clarity on long-term funding and repeat-caller tracking.
Jesse Hikes, head of mental-health initiatives for the city, told the Public Safety Committee on May 19 that the city has expanded multidisciplinary SA CORE teams and deployed ARPA-funded contracts to broaden counseling, diagnostics and youth services. “We started with a pilot in April 2022 and now have three 24-hour teams,” Hikes said.
Hikes described contract outcomes funded with ARPA…
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