Mobile Crisis Program News Today

By Erik Sievers, executive director, Hiawatha Valley Mental Health Center

Staff report The Family Counseling Center is announcing a series of organizational updates including the 2021-22 Board of Directors and new faces on their lea

The American Rescue Plan’s State Option to Invest in Mobile Crisis Intervention Services COVID-19 Update May 11, 2021 Subscribe Editor’s Note: The American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act enacted on March 11, 2021, establishes a state option to provide community mobile crisis intervention services for a five-year period beginning in April 2022. As an incentive to state adoption, the law provides for an 85 percent enhanced federal matching rate for qualifying services for the first three years o...

April 23, 2021 Leaders from the County’s Behavioral Health Division briefed the Board of County Commissioners on the Mobile Crisis Program Tuesday, April 20, outlining the full scope of crisis services available to Multnomah County residents. Mobile crisis services play a key role in emergency situations that don’t require law enforcement, fire or ambulance services. The COVID-19 pandemic, the racial justice movement, criminal justice reform, and other crises have underscored the need for e...