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

(3 days ago) WEBActivists participate in a rally to call for peer-led, non-police response to mental health crisis calls, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, in New York. The Associated Press has found that 14 of the 20 most populous U.S. cities are experimenting with removing …

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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Non-Cop Response Teams Handled Just 16% of 911 Mental …

(7 days ago) WEBFrom January through March 2022, 911 dispatchers routed a mere 23% of the 2,400 mental health calls in the pilot area to the no-cop teams after determining …

https://www.thecity.nyc/2022/07/18/mental-health-911-b-heard-teams/

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More than a dozen cities push to minimize or even eliminate …

(4 days ago) WEBMore than a dozen cities are developing “alternative” or “co-response” programs to minimize or eliminate the role of police officers responding to 911 calls …

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/04/us/police-alternate-response-mental-health/index.html

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There’s a new approach to police response to mental …

(3 days ago) WEBSee how a Street Crisis Response Team takes on 911 mental health calls. said it’s imperative for communities around the country to go further in adopting effective non-police, medically

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/02/us/mental-health-police-response-go-there/index.html

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Non-Police Crisis Response: Explainer - theappeal.org

(6 days ago) WEBThe 50-person department runs the city’s Holistic Empathetic Assistance Response Teams (HEART) program, which it launched in June 2022. HEART has …

https://theappeal.org/non-police-crisis-response-programs-have-been-working-heres-how/

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How do crisis teams handle mental health calls …

(1 days ago) WEBDespite this, police officers often end up serving as the first responders to mental health calls, at times resulting in fatal consequences. In 2016, 242 individuals known to have mental illnesses …

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-do-crisis-teams-handle-mental-health-calls-differently-from-police/

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Non-police mental health response teams growing in the US

(6 days ago) WEBStaffers answered about 2% of all mental health crisis calls citywide last year. Even within the program’s limited territory, it fielded 16% of such calls from July …

https://www.9news.com/article/news/nation-world/us-cities-now-answer-mental-health-crisis-calls-with-civilian-teams/507-9d4d4b97-57db-4d3c-a3bd-be0226f73e4e

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Building mental health into emergency responses

(5 days ago) WEBWhen a call involving a mental health crisis come s in to the CAHOOTS non-emergency line, responders send a medic and a trained mental health crisis worker; if the call involves violence or medical …

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

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San Francisco Cops Will No Longer Be Called 1st For Nonviolent …

(1 days ago) WEBSan Francisco's new, unarmed, non-police teams are scheduled, at first, to take over the police calls for code 800 – a broad, catch-all category the police describe …

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/924146486/removing-cops-from-behavioral-crisis-calls-we-need-to-change-the-model

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How to address police violence and mental health at once - STAT

(5 days ago) WEBActivists in New York City urge peer-led, non-police response to mental health crisis calls at a rally in 2022. In Chicago, Treatment Not Trauma is a bottom-up …

https://www.statnews.com/2024/02/08/treatment-not-trauma-chicago-mental-health-police-violence-community/

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

(8 days ago) WEBMental health workers, rather than police, respond to non-criminal emergency 911 calls in Eugene, Oregon. The CAHOOTS programme reduces …

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

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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 …

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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911 call takers play a crucial role in deciding when to send police

(6 days ago) WEBHarper says the role of a 911 call taker goes far beyond answering the phone. More cities are adopting alternative response models, where mental health clinicians …

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/05/1242310330/911-call-takers-police-alternative

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Denver, Aurora, other big cities move toward answering mental …

(4 days ago) WEBActivists participate in a rally to call for peer-led, non-police response to mental health crisis calls, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, in New York. The Associated …

https://sentinelcolorado.com/metro/denver-aurora-other-big-cities-move-toward-answering-mental-health-crisis-calls-with-civilian-teams-not-cops/

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What Happens When We Send Mental Health Providers Instead of …

(3 days ago) WEBFor Daniel Prude, Patrick Warren Sr., and Ricardo Muñoz, 911 calls led to tragedy. They are three of at least 97 people killed just last year after police responded …

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

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Denver's mental health approach to low-level 911 calls helped …

(7 days ago) WEBLast year, the American Psychological Association estimated that 20 percent of calls to police involve mental health or substance abuse issues. A 2015 report by …

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/denvers-mental-health-approach-low-level-911-calls-helped-reduce-minor-rcna32659

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Murphy signs law expanding non-police response to mental …

(Just Now) WEBMental health disorders affect people from all areas of life and all ages, but are treatable. Call Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s …

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/murphy-signs-law-expanding-non-police-response-to-mental-health-emergency-calls/ar-AA1mT4DM

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A dispatchers' problem? Sending non-cop response to mental …

(9 days ago) WEBFrom January through March 2022, 911 dispatchers routed a mere 23% of the 2,400 mental health calls in the pilot area to the no-cop teams after determining …

https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2022/07/19/non-cop-response-teams-handled-just-16-of-911-mental-health-crisis-calls/

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Remove police from mental health crisis response, advocates …

(2 days ago) WEBCouncillors calling for alternatives to police response. Canada's largest mental health hospital calls for removal of police from front lines for people in crisis. …

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/alternative-mental-health-response-1.6065159

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City looking at non-police response to mental health calls

(5 days ago) WEBOne Ottawa neighbourhood could try having mental health professionals responding to mental health distress and substance abuse calls in Ottawa rather than …

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-pilot-project-police-mental-health-calls-1.6880750

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Frontline Professionals NAMI

(8 days ago) WEBIf you are in crisis, there are resources you can turn to. The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline offers free, confidential crisis counseling 24/7/365 just by dialing 988 — and you don’t …

https://www.nami.org/Your-Journey/Frontline-Professionals/

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California community demands end to police calls for mental …

(Just Now) WEBA 15-year-old autistic boy was shot and killed in a confrontation with police in Southern California, sparking a debate over the role of police in mental health calls.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/california-community-demands-end-to-police-calls-for-mental-health-emergencies-after-death-of-15-year-old-boy/ar-BB1ky19c

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Mental Health And Police Violence: How Crisis Intervention Is …

(6 days ago) WEBSchulik and many others in the mental health field in the city are trying to change how the police respond to these kinds of crisis calls. No to handcuffs and …

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

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Lafayette police suspend mental health training initiative News

(4 days ago) WEBThe Lafayette Police Department has suspended its recently launched initiative to send specially trained officers to mental health-related calls. Police officials …

https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/lafayette-police-suspend-mental-health-initiative-cite-staffing-shortage/article_3d7fa520-0316-11ef-a07c-332e1bfff965.html

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Spotlight on 'gaps' in Australia's mental health system in wake of

(3 days ago) WEBThe dreadful circumstances of last Saturday afternoon are now the subject of a police and coronial investigation. Part of the inquiry will focus on Cauchi's mental …

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-19/joel-cauchi-bondi-attacker-had-schizophrenia-explained/103738664

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Sunak accused of launching ‘full-on assault on disabled people’

(Just Now) WEBIndeed the Care Quality Commission’s latest figures on community mental health services show that nearly half of people (44%) waiting for treatment found their …

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/19/sunak-disability-benefit-curbs-sicknote-culture-pip

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Mental health chair resigns, calling out government 'inactions'

(Just Now) WEBThe Chair of Mental Health Australia has taken a swipe at the Albanese government's "inaction" on mental health, as he resigned from the top role of the peak …

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-24/mental-health-chair-resigns-calling-out-government-inactions-/103766414

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What the New Overtime Rule Means for Workers

(6 days ago) WEBThe Department of Labor’s new overtime regulation is restoring and extending this promise for millions more lower-paid salaried workers in the U.S.

https://blog.dol.gov/2024/04/23/what-the-new-overtime-rule-means-for-workers

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