Helping fire victims with their mental health

It has been several months since the Palisades wildfires in California, many people who did not have insurance have struggled to recover and even worse, there are people who are still in shelters.

Miriam Brown, Deputy Director of the Emergency Outreach and Triage Division of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, explains what happens with the effects, not on the home, but on people for having lived through something traumatic for having lost their home.

Miriam Brown says what the LA County Department of Mental Health is doing to attend to the population.

Recognizing that mental health sometimes we don’t hear it and it manifests in the body, so said Miriam Brown, Deputy Director of the Emergency Outreach and Triage Division of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health.

Traumatic events such as fleeing a wildfire and seeing our home lost affects children as well, so Miriam Brown, Deputy Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health’s Emergency Outreach and Triage Division, talks about how they help this population group.

Miriam Brown, Deputy Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health’s Emergency Outreach and Triage Division, explains that they go to the community to address their immediate need.

Miriam Brown, Deputy Director of the Emergency Outreach and Triage Division of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, asks the community to reach out for help if they need it without fear for their immigration status.

Finally, remember that LA County has an emergency dispatch office and at the time of a crisis or disaster can assist the community.

Thanks in part to the American Red Cross.