HI HB1131

Establishes an intensive mobile team pilot program within the Department of Health's adult mental health division to provide street psychiatry services to chronically houseless individuals with serious brain disorders, particularly schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.

Creates one intensive mobile team within the community mental health center system to manage at least 40 participants and provide after-hours crisis response, emergency room visits, and coordination with law enforcement.

Team shall prioritize housing placements, initiate psychiatric medications, pursue assisted community treatment orders, and continue services if participants are admitted to Hawaii State Hospital.

Staffs the program with 8.1 full-time equivalent positions including 1 clinical supervisor, 0.5 FTE psychiatrist, 5 human services professionals/social workers, 0.5 FTE registered nurse, 0.1 FTE epidemiologist/research statistician, and 1 program specialist.

Requires legislative reports by 2026 and 2027 on participant arrests, hospitalizations, housing placements, medication starts, family reconnections, and assisted community treatment orders; program dissolves June 30, 2028.