The Westminster Police Department has partnered with a local nonprofit to establish a mobile response team to provide mental health services to the community through a program that launched June 26. Be Well OC is the nonprofit which has taken over non-life-threatening mental health calls on behalf of the city’s police department. So far, the…

The Be Well OC Mobile Home Crisis Program in Huntington Beach—which responds to non-emergency mental health crises in the city—was awarded $500,000 Nov. 1 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The funds will support the program for the next two years. Huntington Beach’s program is a part of Be Well OC—a mental…

Be Well OC—a mental health support system serving Orange County through a partnership of hundreds of public and private organizations and government agencies—released a report (pdf) specific to its mobile response program in Huntington Beach this week that summarized the program’s contribution to public safety and residents’ mental well-being in the past year. According to the…

ORANGE, Calif.—Orange County officials gathered on March 9 to refocus on the county’s approach to providing services to those experiencing suffering mental distress. Local officials met alongside U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra at the Be Well OC campus—an organization to address mental health and substance abuse disorders among residents—to acknowledge the…

Huntington Beach launched its new mobile crisis response team Sept. 16, a first for the city which will help those battling tough mental illnesses to get mental health help and rely less on law enforcement to intervene. Known as Be Well Orange County, the mobile crisis unit consists of a large van filled with two…