{"id":112083,"date":"2022-12-08T12:43:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T20:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=112083"},"modified":"2022-12-08T15:47:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T23:47:09","slug":"county-aims-to-bring-residential-behavioral-health-treatment-to-antelope-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2022\/12\/08\/county-aims-to-bring-residential-behavioral-health-treatment-to-antelope-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"County aims to bring residential behavioral health treatment to Antelope Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mental-health.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100021\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mental-health.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mental-health.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mental-health-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved <a href=\"https:\/\/file.lacounty.gov\/SDSInter\/bos\/supdocs\/175533.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a motion<\/a> Tuesday that will bring intensive residential mental health and substance abuse programming to the Antelope Valley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe northernmost portion of our County is in dire need of behavioral health care services,\u201d said Supervisor Kathryn Barger, who introduced the motion. \u201cThe closest crisis residential treatment program is more than 50 miles away in Sylmar. My Antelope Valley constituents deserve to have access to high-quality residential programming to treat their mental health needs. If we expect to make a dent in the mental health and homelessness crisis, this is the type of action the County needs to take \u2013 an investment in building up our mental health bed capacity to treat behavioral health disorders, heal trauma, and provide systematic care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The motion directs the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health to start its assessment process, which includes studying the needs of people served by the High Desert Behavioral Health Urgent Care Center.<\/p>\n<p>Their results will be used to document a need for a crisis residential treatment program in the County\u2019s Service Area 1, which consists of the Antelope Valley.<\/p>\n<h6><em>[Information via news release from the office of Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger.]<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion Tuesday that will bring intensive residential mental health and substance abuse programming to the Antelope Valley. \u201cThe northernmost portion of our County is in dire need of behavioral health care services,\u201d said Supervisor Kathryn Barger, who introduced the motion. \u201cThe closest crisis residential treatment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1499,1496],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112084,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112083\/revisions\/112084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}