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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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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 calls in precincts where it operated in the first half of 2023. Mental health calls make up 10% of all 911 calls in the city, officials have said. In Denver, a study of the city’s

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

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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 crises. Some cities are realizing that needs to change. For Daniel Prude, Patrick Warren Sr., and Ricardo Muñoz, 911 calls led to tragedy. They are three of at least 97 people …

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

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

(3 days ago) WEBOfficials say B-HEARD answered 53% of eligible calls in the last six months of 2022, the most recent data available. But that was 16% of all the mental health crisis calls within the program’s limited territory. Leigh Foster, who supervises paramedics in Denver’s alternative policing program, works at an ambulance bay on Oct. 20, 2022.

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

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

(8 days ago) WEBMental ill-health is the leading cause of disability and poor life outcomes in young people aged 10–24 years, contributing up to 45% of the overall burden of disease in this age-group. Yet globally, young people have the worst access to youth mental health care within the lifespan and across all the stages of illness (particularly during the

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/mental-health-replace-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 -- no indication of violence at

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

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911 Crisis Response Teams Offer Alternatives To Policing Mental …

(Just Now) WEBIf you or someone you know is in a crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. Kaiser Health

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/06/10/1004744348/in-montana-crisis-support-teams-offer-alternatives-to-policing-mental-health

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In mental health crises, a 911 call now brings a mixed team of

(3 days ago) WEBMore communities are creating teams of health care providers to respond to mental health crises instead of cops, a shift propelled by nationwide demonstrations against police brutality.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/in-mental-health-crises-a-911-call-now-brings-a-mixed-team-of-helpers-and-maybe-no-cops

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

(6 days ago) WEBThe peer navigator helps individuals obtain mental health and substance use disorder treatment, links them with primary health care providers, and helps with arranging stabilizing services such as

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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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-limited

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

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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 significant benefits.

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

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L.A. promised mental health crisis response without cops. Why …

(3 days ago) WEBCrisis counselors who answer the 988 hotline — via the nonprofit Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services, based in West L.A. — cannot dispatch emergency teams. Instead, they must transfer a person in crisis to a separate county hotline, which can opt to send mental health workers — bouncing the caller around the system.

https://centerforhealthjournalism.org/our-work/reporting/la-promised-mental-health-crisis-response-without-cops-why-isnt-it-happening

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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 assistance of police, firefighters, medical responders, or mental health support, and dispatchers route those calls accordingly. Still, not all callers recognize they’re in need of …

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

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Sending Health Care Workers instead of Cops Can Reduce Crime

(4 days ago) WEBExpenditures for providing help may also drop when health workers show up instead of police. Dee and Pyne estimated that the $208,141 program cost Denver about $151 for each incident. In contrast

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sending-health-care-workers-instead-of-cops-can-reduce-crime/

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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 years and have spread to more than

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

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Why Police Are Still Handling Mental-Health Crises - The Atlantic

(8 days ago) WEBA Washington Post analysis found that one-quarter of people fatally shot by U.S. police in 2015 were mentally ill or in emotional crisis. Many police officers, meanwhile, have expressed

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/mental-health-crisis-police-intervention/622842/

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In Mental Health Crises, a 911 Call Now Brings a - KFF Health News

(7 days ago) WEBMore communities are creating teams of health care providers to respond to mental health crises instead of cops, a shift propelled by nationwide demonstrations against police brutality. But the shapes of those mobile crisis response teams vary because the movement is still in an experimental stage.

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/in-mental-health-crises-a-911-call-now-brings-a-mixed-team-of-helpers-and-maybe-no-cops/

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How some encounters between police and people with mental …

(7 days ago) WEBYet people with untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during a police encounter than other people approached by law enforcement, the Treatment Advocacy Center said in a

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-some-encounters-between-police-and-people-with-mental-illness-can-turn-tragic

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Mental crisis calls to police can be deadly. Cities try new ways to

(4 days ago) WEBAbout 1 in 5 people killed by police since 2015 were having a mental health crisis. Like other cities, Philadelphia is trying a new approach: sending along social workers to respond to those calls.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/11/09/1203342875/cities-know-the-way-police-respond-to-mental-crisis-calls-needs-to-change-but-ho

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Cops and No Counselors American Civil Liberties Union

(Just Now) WEBPolice and Schools. No data indicates that police in schools improve student safety, student educational outcomes, or student mental health. For example, a recent evaluation of the impact of North Carolina’s state grant program for school-based police officers (called school resource officers) concluded that middle schools that used state grants to hire …

https://www.aclu.org/issues/juvenile-justice/school-prison-pipeline/cops-and-no-counselors

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Cops, Clinicians, or Both? Collaborative Approaches to Responding …

(1 days ago) WEBHealth care and criminal justice systems are facing increasing challenges from the growing numbers of individuals experiencing behavioral health crises (defined here as a crisis related to mental illness or a substance use disorder) (1, 2).Law enforcement agencies, emergency departments (EDs), and jails have become the de facto …

https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.202000721

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How Police Officers Are (or Aren’t) Trained in Mental Health

(7 days ago) WEBCrisis Intervention Training (CIT)—with a 40-hour curriculum—is the most comprehensive police officer mental health training program in the country. According to Laura Usher, CIT program

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/how-police-officers-are-or-aren-t-trained-in-mental-health/280485/

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