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(7 days ago) WebChicago’s Cook County Jail, the Los Angeles County Jail, and New York’s Rikers Island jail complex each hold more people with serious mental health conditions than any dedicated treatment

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeseq/2021/11/01/what-happens-when-we-send-mental-health-providers-instead-of-police/

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What Happens When We Send Mental Health Providers Instead of …

(3 days ago) WebWhat Happens When We Send Mental Health Providers Instead of Police. Police have become the default first responders for people experiencing mental health …

https://www.vera.org/news/what-happens-when-we-send-mental-health-providers-instead-of-police

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How sending mental health responders instead of police could …

(Just Now) Web"Of the more than 170,000 mental health calls to 911 last year, an estimated one call every three minutes, the majority of concerns were people who just needed help …

https://abcnews.go.com/US/sending-mental-health-responders-police-save-black-lives/story?id=74210488

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This US city sends mental health workers instead of police to non

(8 days ago) WebThis US city sends mental health workers instead of police to non-criminal emergency calls Jul 15, 2020. Some proponents of moves to defund the police argue …

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/mental-health-replace-police/

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Many big US cities now answer mental health crisis calls with …

(3 days ago) WebThe STAR program uses clinicians and EMTs or paramedics to respond to nonviolent mental health crises, instead of police. Data gathered by The Associated …

https://apnews.com/article/mental-health-crisis-911-police-alternative-civilian-responders-ca97971200c485e36aa456c04d217547

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How Police Alternatives to Mental Health Calls Are Growing in the …

(Just Now) WebMeanwhile, the B-HEARD program in New York City, which is just three years old in a diverse city of 8.5 million, responded to roughly a quarter of mental health …

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/03/23/police-emergency-mental-health-911

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Here's What Happens When Social Workers, Not Police, Respond …

(6 days ago) WebMental health cases make up 13% of use-of-force incidents, according to the Honolulu Police Department’s latest force report. And in recent years, incidents in which …

https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/03/heres-what-happens-when-social-workers-not-police-respond-to-mental-health-crises/

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How the American Rescue Plan Act will help cities replace police …

(6 days ago) WebLast November, we co-authored a Brookings report on alternatives to police as first responders when dealing with people experiencing a mental health crisis. In the …

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-the-american-rescue-plan-act-will-help-cities-replace-police-with-trained-crisis-teams-for-mental-health-emergencies/

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For mental crises, send a pro not the police? - Futurity

(Just Now) WebNew research uncovers the strongest evidence yet that dispatching mental health professionals instead of police officers in response to some 911 calls can have …

https://www.futurity.org/mental-health-police-911-2750812-2/

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Enlisting Mental Health Workers, Not Cops, In Mobile Crisis …

(Just Now) WebThe agency operates the nation’s largest mental health crisis hotline and is preparing for a tripling of calls from 130,000 to 390,000 a year. Without expansion, the county’s now …

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.00678

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Alternatives to Police for Mental Health Crises - Psychology Today

(Just Now) WebThe first is a co-responder program with a licensed mental health clinician and a police officer, much like Toronto’s MCIT, and has been running since 2016. A …

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/talking-about-trauma/202201/alternatives-police-mental-health-crises

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Decoupling Crisis Response from Policing — A Step Toward …

(1 days ago) WebContinued reliance on police as mental health first responders in Black and other minority communities leads directly to unnecessary injuries and deaths and …

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms2035710

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Lawsuit Challenges Unequal Response to Mental Health …

(7 days ago) WebA federal lawsuit challenges the District of Columbia’s practice of sending police officers rather than mental health providers to respond to mental health …

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/lawsuit-challenges-unequal-response-to-mental-health-emergencies-in-washington-dc

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Behavioral Health Crisis Alternatives - Vera Institute

(8 days ago) WebShifting from Police to Community Responses. Police are ill-equipped to safely and effectively serve people experiencing behavioral health crises. With more than 240 …

https://www.vera.org/behavioral-health-crisis-alternatives

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Alternatives to calling the police in a crisis - MHA Screening

(7 days ago) WebAbout this service. dontcallthepolice.com is a database of vetted resources that can be used as alternatives to calling the police or 911, broken down by city. We provide information …

https://screening.mhanational.org/content/alternatives-calling-police-crisis/

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Building mental health into emergency responses

(5 days ago) WebAnd as of February 2021, 911 callers in Austin, Texas, can opt for mental health services when they seek help for an emergency. Each caller can request the …

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2021/07/emergency-responses

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Mental Health And Police Violence: How Crisis Intervention Is …

(6 days ago) WebNo replacement for adequate mental health care system . Still, police crisis intervention teams remain the dominant model. They've been around for more than 30 …

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/913229469/mental-health-and-police-violence-how-crisis-intervention-teams-are-failing

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California police team with mental health crisis workers- CalMatters

(7 days ago) WebNevada County Mobile Crisis Team member Sheriff’s Deputy Galen Spittler, left, detains a man on a mental health hold while on patrol in Penn Valley on March 15, …

https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/03/mental-health-crisis-police/

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Investing in Evidence-Based Alternatives to Policing

(6 days ago) WebWhat Happens When We Send Mental Health Providers Instead of Police. May 27, 2021. PUBLICATION. Understanding Police Enforcement. Sep 29, 2020. STATE …

https://www.vera.org/publications/investing-in-evidence-based-alternatives-to-policing

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A guide to programs for mental health and police response

(7 days ago) WebA survey in Illinois estimated that 7% to 10% of police-citizen interactions involve a citizen with a mental health disorder and that officers are 1.4 to 4.5 times more …

https://www.police1.com/chiefs-sheriffs/articles/persons-in-mental-health-crisis-a-primer-for-police-response-A0ZXruNf6DaNLzlR/

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Increasing Mental Health Literacy in Law Enforcement to Improve …

(3 days ago) WebThe responses of uniformed police officers indicate statistically significant more frequent challenges in collaboration with mental health services (24.4% instead of …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8365022/

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For Decades, Los Angeles Jailed People with Mental Health Needs.

(7 days ago) WebThe wins are part of an ongoing effort to transform how Los Angeles approaches mental health. The Office of Diversion and Reentry (ODR) was created in …

https://www.vera.org/news/for-decades-los-angeles-jailed-people-with-mental-health-needs-now-its-finally-prioritizing-treatment

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