City of hermosa beach mobile mental health crisis response team - city of hermosa beach will launch a mobile crisis response pilot program to provide help to people experiencing homelessness and…

City of hermosa beach mobile mental health crisis response team - city of hermosa beach will launch a mobile crisis response pilot program to provide help to people experiencing homelessness and mental health crises. Currently, the hermosa beach police department is often the agency responding to calls involving unhoused residents who have mental health issues. The city will use the federal funding to engage and support a civilian team that will respond instead of the police when the calls involve non-emergency and non-medical situations with individuals experiencing homelessness and in need of mental health services. The mobile crisis response team will be trained and equipped to DE-escalate situations and work in cooperation with harbor interfaith services, which provides services for hermosa's unhoused residents. The mobile crisis response team will be able to provide information, referrals, transportation to services and additional follow-up support and case management to support harbor interfaith services. The population served will consist of 34 individuals experiencing homelessness in hermosa beach, as well as the resident population of approximately 19,728. The project will aim to decrease the number of individuals experiencing homelessness by offering welfare checks and stabilization services; decrease the number of mental health crisis calls handled by the hermosa beach police department by identifying calls eligible for diversion to an alternate response model, and improving access to those experiencing homelessness in hermosa beach. The city will evaluate the pilot program's effectiveness in reducing demand for police services and securing help for people experiencing homelessness to determine whether the model can be used more widely to address mental health issues and homelessness in the region.