Facing hiring difficulties, Marion County mobile crisis teams are still months from operation
Marion County officials are struggling to hire mental health workers for a mobile crisis program, delaying the rollout of a much-anticipated effort to divert crisis calls from police.
Leaders of the county’s Health and Human Services Department announced plans for their new “community response team” in November 2022.
The long-awaited program would operate 24/7 and dispatch teams consisting of a mental health professional and a certified recovery mentor to low-risk incidents to help de-escalate people…
