Council Member Lee emphasizes the need for 988 and B-HEARD improvements

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Council Member Linda Lee responds to the testimony by emphasizing the purpose of the hearing: to improve mental health crisis response. She highlights two key areas of focus:

Making the 988 crisis hotline more prevalent to prevent traumatic situations
Ensuring the B-HEARD program is as effective as possible

Linda Lee

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And this is exactly why we're here today because we need to figure out how to make 988 more prevalent so that these situations don't happen as well as to make sure that be heard is as effective as possible.

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So I just wanna thank you both for sharing your stories.

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Council Member Lee emphasizes the need for 988 and B-HEARD improvements

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