San Luis Obispo adds mental health crisis teams to address mental & substance abuse calls (CA)

KCBX’s Angel Russell reports.

As cities across the country grapple with the issue of police responding to mental health and substance abuse crisis related calls, the city of San Luis Obispo is expanding on one program — and creating another — to help shift intervention away from law enforcement, and into the hands of health-related experts.

At their last council meeting, the City of San Luis Obispo approved a budget to add a second Community Action Team, also known as CAT.

Kelsey Nocket, the city’s homelessness response manager, said CAT is comprised of two people — a police officer paired with a mental health clinician. The two respond to 9-1-1 as well as non-emergency dispatch related calls where people may be suffering from a potential mental health or substance abuse crisis…

San Luis Obispo adds mental health crisis teams to address mental & substance abuse calls (CA)

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