Concord funds expansion of teams to provide mental health, homeless support services

The City of Concord is spending more than $500,000 to fund its own Mental Health Evaluation Team to work full time with the city’s homeless population, and to expand the Coordinated Outreach Referral and Engagement (CORE) homeless outreach team partnership with Contra Costa County from half-time to full-time in the city.

The Concord City Council in September voted unanimously to create its own Mental Health Evaluation Team and to expand the hours of the CORE team working within Concord. The council last week hammered out the funding and some other specifics of those initiatives.