For children and young adults in emotional crisis, there is immediate help that most often doesn’t result in institutionalization. Now the providers of the Mobile Response Team want more people to know about the free service.
To that end, LifeStream Behavioral Center, which is Citrus County’s mental health and addiction treatment services provider, is encouraging local mental health care providers and the public to utilize the free help.
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