ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Two Orange County deputies will be partnered up with mental health clinicians to respond to mental health crisis calls as part of a new sheriff’s office pilot program called the Behavioral Response Unit.Sheriff John Mina eluded to the idea of a new response team last week but on Thursday, the sheriff’s office revealed new details about the pilot program and what it could mean for the Orange County community.The clinicians are mental health professionals with Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health and the deputies have received crisis intervention training.
The deputy-clinician pairs also participated in 40 hours of behavioral response unit training earlier this month.[TRENDING: 250,000 chickens killed in fire | SpaceX.