Jean Friend
LEBANON — A long-anticipated program to offer in-person support to people experiencing mental health and substance use crises in New Hampshire is within reach, but difficulties finding workers is causing delays in its full rollout.
Through state contracts that went into effect at the beginning of July, New Hampshire’s 10 community mental health centers now have funding to operate mobile crisis teams to respond in-person to people in crisis, but they don’t yet have the staff to make those visits, said Bill Metcalfe, director of the Lebanon-based West Central Behavioral Health’s mobile crisis services.
West Central, which serves people in
