Columbia river mental health services mobile night crisis team - columbia river mental health services (crmhs) is requesting $474,000 for its columbia river night crisis team

The requested funding would be used to support 7 community crisis specialist in providing crisis screenings, interventions, and follow-up to southwest washington. Crmhs currently serves over 5,000 unique individuals in our mental health, substance use disorder outpatient programs, and our northstar opioid treatment program every year. The population of focus are adult individuals experiencing mental health and substance use crises in clark county, including rural areas such as yacolt, amboy, and washougal. Located in the southwest corner of the state, clark county has a total population of 511,404 people and is located in the portland-vancouver-hillsboro, or-WA, metropolitan statistical area. Clark county is 77.5 percent white, 10.2 percent hispanic or latino, 4.3 percent two or more races, 2.4 percent black or african american, and 1.2 percent american indian. The columbia river night crisis team will increase access to crisis services and expand service to underserved rural areas of the community, serving over 120 unique individuals each year. Our goal is to provide crisis interventions to the community and foster engagement in supportive systems of care. Our approach utilizes several treatment services and partnerships to create a broad, integrated support system for individuals to have all behavioral and physical needs met, while reducing strain on existing emergency responders.