LOS ANGELES — Every day, the community faces mental health challenges that law enforcement is not trained to mitigate. That's according to the experts at Sycamores, a behavioral health services agency that deploys a Mobile Crisis Outreach Team to respond to calls from the 9-8-8 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and the Crisis & Suicide Intervention HELPline 951-686-HELP (4357) in Riverside County.

The Mobile Crisis Outreach Team says it offers crisis stabilization, safety planning, connections to resources and, when necessary, transportation to a hospital.