Bello task force calls for expansion of mental health response programs

The county will move FIT to around the clock service, as it begins forming broader behavioral health crisis response programs.Monroe County will immediately begin to divert behavioral health crisis calls that do not require an immediate in-person response to the 211/Lifeline crisis hotline and will work to develop an around the clock system of non-police responders to handle mental health crisis calls that need an immediate, in-person response, county officials announced Thursday. Both initiativ