Division Chief, Countywide Engagement Division

LA County Department of Mental Health

AUBREE LOVELACE, MFT

Aubree Lovelace is a Division Chief of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health directing multiple programs in the Department's Countywide Engagement Division. Leading the Homeless Outreach Mobile Engagement (HOME), Skid Row Concierge, Women’s Community Reentry, and Men’s Community Reentry Programs, she ensures effective and assertive field-based services are delivered to the marginalized and underserved populations of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness with severe mental illness as well as formerly incarcerated people experiencing mental illness. In her former role as Program Manager of HOME, she led the transformation of that program from homeless outreach as usual into a full-service street psychiatry program implementing innovative interventions including Outpatient Conservatorship, relentless follow-up, and hands-on intervention to effect involuntary hospitalization without the involvement of law enforcement. A Marriage and Family Therapist by training, Aubree’s time is now spent primarily in meetings with politicians and fellow bureaucrats to develop and coordinate services to the people of Los Angeles. She is happiest when those meetings are rescheduled and she can get out on the streets of Skid Row and involved in the services her programs deliver.