Santa Cruz County has launched a Mobile Emergency Response Team for Youth in south county to provide field-based crisis intervention services to residents 21 years and younger.
The response team, referred to as MERTY, uses a state grant to staff the mobile clinic with a bilingual clinician, a bilingual family support partner and many other “culturally responsive and clinically appropriate services” to the community, county spokesperson Jason Hoppin said.
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