Neighborhood Notes
ALMADEN>>The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors last month voted to expand the county’s Mobile Crisis Response Team services for young people ages 16-24.
The program, which started in 2018, unites specialized clinicians with law enforcement to respond to people who may be having a mental health crisis.
Supervisors approved a $2 million agreement to support the expansion of mobile crisis services through 2025. Funding will be allocated to the county’s Behavioral Health Services Department from a state grant.
A pre-existing contract with Pacific Clinics (formerly Uplift Family Services), the current provider of the county’s mobile response services for teens through age 17, will be expanded to include the provision of services to youth up to age 21.
In February the county added four mental health specialists to the team to cover Supervisor Joe Simitian’s District 5, which includes the Almaden Valley.
WILLOW GLEN>> The Friends of the Willow Glen Library are once again accepting donations during regular library hours at the Willow Glen branch library located at 1157 Minnesota Ave.
The Friends are accepting donations of new or gently used hardback fiction, paperback fiction, nonfiction and young adult and children’s books. Sales of these items benefit library programs.
The nonprofit is no longer accepting any form of media, including CDs, DVDs, LPs, VHS tapes or cassette tapes. They’re also unable to use textbooks, encyclopedias, travel guides, computer books, medical books older than five years and diet books older than three years.
Source: www.mercurynews.com