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Regional health leaders urge Gov. Newsom to restore funding for mobile crisis intervention

Health officials in the Bay Area and across the state are demanding that Gov. Gavin Newsom restore proposed budget cuts of mobile crisis intervention services. “We must protect and expand mobile crisis response,” said Mae Sampani, executive director of crisis services at Pacific Clinics, in a virtual briefing this past Thursday. “It saves lives.”

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According to Local News Matters’s source item, Regional health leaders urge Gov. Newsom to restore funding for mobile crisis intervention, Health officials in the Bay Area and across the state are demanding that Gov. Gavin Newsom restore proposed budget cuts of mobile crisis intervention services. “We must protect and expand mobile crisis response,” said Mae Sampani, executive director of crisis services at Pacific Clinics, in a virtual briefing this past Thursday. “It saves lives.”

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