{"id":666981,"date":"2026-05-26T23:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/666981\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T23:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:55:07","slug":"spotlight-now-whats-next-for-oahus-street-mental-health-crisis-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/666981\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight Now: What\u2019s next for Oahu\u2019s street mental health crisis response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Spotlight Now welcomes Dr. Jim Ireland, director of the city Department of Emergency Services, and Dr. Scott Miscovich, who runs \u02bbA\u02bbala Respite, for a joint conversation about mental illness and homelessness on Oahu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The MH-3 program deploys crisis teams backed by law enforcement to transport mentally ill homeless individuals to health facilities for evaluation, rather than booking them into jail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/2026\/05\/13\/respite-centers-sick-injured-homeless-could-close-after-lawmakers-cut-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/2026\/05\/13\/respite-centers-sick-injured-homeless-could-close-after-lawmakers-cut-funding\/\">Now that the legislature has cut $8 million in funding for medical respite centers,<\/a> what happens next, and what questions remain about resources, capacity, and continuity of care?<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Then on Community Spotlight, Haylin Dennison of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spilltheteacafe.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.spilltheteacafe.org\/\">Spill the Tea Cafe<\/a> shares how the program is working to support Hawaii\u2019s LGBTQ youth through life-saving mental health care.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Spotlight Now welcomes Dr. Jim Ireland, director of the city Department of Emergency Services, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":["post-666981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}