Mid-Columbia Center for Living is in the process of refocusing its crisis response from focusing on responding to hospital emergency rooms to community response.  That’s to adjust to the Oregon Health Authority’s adoption of new rules for Community Mental Health Programs it governs.  The rules require programs like Center for Living to have two-person mobile crisis response teams available 24-7 to respond to behavioral health crisis in the community while reducing the need for law enforcement involvement in non-violent situations.  Center for Living Executive Director Al Barton says another element of the new rules requires up to 52 days of support for families and youth age 20 or younger.  Barton says they have been working with area hospitals for this transition, but those facilities will need to provide their own staff to provide behavioral health assessments and discharge planning.