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Supervisors direct joint DMH–HSH effort to better serve people with serious mental illness living outdoors
Summary
The Board approved a motion directing the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Homeless Services and Housing to strengthen coordination, establish a homelessness liaison and jointly define metrics for serving unhoused people with serious mental illness. The vote was unanimous after the board added a DMH–HSH metrics requirement.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on March 17 overwhelmingly approved a motion by Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Kathryn Barger directing a series of operational and coordination steps to improve services for people experiencing homelessness who have serious mental illness.
The motion asks for an identified homelessness liaison and a cross‑agency team to convene case conferences, expand field‑based mental‑health and mobile response capacity, and strengthen workforce development for behavioral‑health specialists working with…
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