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Bill Would Provide Funds for Mobile Mental Health Crisis Assessment Teams For 17 years, Deschutes County has operated a program similar to the one proposed by the Oregon legislature It s a Tuesday evening and Nicole Von Laven, a behavioral health specialist with Deschutes County s Mobile Crisis Assessment Team, answers a phone call from Bend Police Sgt. Elizabeth Lawrence that the veteran officer placed to the county s mental health crisis hotline. Lawrence tells Von Laven she s at the home of a family whose adult son is experiencing a mental break that, as far as they know, is happening for the first time. Lawrence told Von Laven the subject is agitated, loudly arguing with himself and pacing around the backyard and sweating, although the temperature on this night is in the high 20s. Lawrence said the man is not threatening to harm himself or others. His father says there are no firearms or intentional weapons in the home, she relates, but the man is ....