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 nonprofit has responded to over 80 calls since the program’s launch.
“We can see the demonstrated need of our services just based on the sheer number of the first month of calls,” Be Well OC Vice President of Mobile Operations Kathryn Hamel told The Epoch Times….