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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 10:31 - Source: CNN Taking the police out of it

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

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Issues in Law Enforcement Reform: Responding to …

(2 days ago) WEBIssues in Law Enforcement Reform: Responding to Mental Health Crises Congressional Research Service 1 aw enforcement officers1 are frequently the first …

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47285

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How Police Alternatives to Mental Health Calls Are …

(Just Now) WEBMental health providers have shown broad approval of 988, Some activists have raised alarms that the program can still lead to police response in some …

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

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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 …

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

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Decoupling Crisis Response from Policing — A Step …

(1 days ago) WEBContinued reliance on police as mental health first responders in Black and other minority 30,31 Shifting the obligation of mental health emergency response …

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

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Why Police Are Still Handling Mental-Health Crises

(8 days ago) WEBA 2021 Pew Charitable Trusts survey of 911 centers found that staff are seldom trained on mental-health issues and have few options for mental-health responses. Many centers use computer-aided

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

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Policing mental health: Recent deaths highlight concerns over …

(3 days ago) WEBMore than 1 in 5 people fatally shot by police have mental illnesses, according to a Washington Post database of fatal U.S. shootings by on-duty police …

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/policing-mental-health-recent-deaths-highlight-concerns-over-officer-response-n1266935

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Law Enforcement Response to the Mental Health Crisis: …

(5 days ago) WEBJust like law enforcement officers address mental health issues in the community, agency leaders must address the psychological and emotional well-being of their officers.

https://cops.usdoj.gov/html/dispatch/03-2018/le_response_to_mental_health_crisis.html

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Innovative solutions to address the mental health crisis

(8 days ago) WEBIn San Francisco, for instance, all mental health-related calls are coded 800, a city specific police-transmission code for a “report of a mentally disturbed …

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/innovative-solutions-to-address-the-mental-health-crisis-shifting-away-from-police-as-first-responders/

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A guide to programs for mental health and police response

(7 days ago) WEBThe program will provide a 24-hour crisis intervention response. The unit will be split into two separate teams, one acting as a comprehensive homicide response …

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

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CRITICAL ISSUES IN POLICING SERIES

(Just Now) WEBcritical issues in policing today: the role of police in responding to calls for service involving people in mental or behavioral health (MBH) crisis. This has been a …

https://www.policeforum.org/assets/MBHResponse.pdf

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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 …

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

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Police Reform From the Perspective of Mental Health Services and

(1 days ago) WEBShifting responsibility for mental health crisis response away from police requires an adequately funded and functional community mental health system with a …

https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.202000572

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Responding to Persons Experiencing a Mental Health Crisis

(3 days ago) WEBIII. DEFINITIONS Mental Health Crisis: An event or experience in which an individual’s normal coping mechanisms are overwhelmed, causing them to have an extreme …

https://www.theiacp.org/sites/default/files/2021-07/Mental%20Health%20Crisis%20Response%20FULL%20-%2006292020.pdf

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Contact Between Police and People With Mental Disorders: A …

(6 days ago) WEBObjective: There is widespread belief that people with mental disorders are overrepresented in police encounters. The prevalence of such interactions is used as …

https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ps.201500312

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Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Programs NAMI

(8 days ago) WEBCrisis Intervention Team (CIT) Programs The lack of mental health crisis services across the U.S. has resulted in law enforcement officers serving as first responders to most …

https://www.nami.org/advocacy/crisis-intervention/crisis-intervention-team-cit-programs/

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When mental health emergencies end in fatal police encounters

(7 days ago) WEBThe next day, June 2, 2019, Walnut Creek, California, police responded to multiple 911 calls about Hall, 23, who was having a mental health episode and roaming …

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/10/us/police-mental-health-emergencies/index.html

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Rethinking the Police Response to Mental Health-related Calls

(4 days ago) WEBPublished by the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), this report addresses one of the most critical issues in policing today: the role of police officers in …

https://policeandsecuritynews.com/2024/02/09/rethinking-the-police-response-to-mental-health-related-calls-promising-models/

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Department of Justice and Department of Health & Human …

(9 days ago) WEBdiabetic crisis, equal opportunity would entail dispatching a health response in similar circumstances involving a person with a behavioral health disability. 18. …

https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-05/Sec.%2014%28a%29%20-%20DOJ%20and%20HHS%20Guidance%20on%20Emergency%20Responses%20to%20Individuals%20with%20Behavioral%20Health%20or%20Other%20Disabilities_FINAL.pdf

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Police Stress and Deleterious Outcomes: Efforts Towards …

(3 days ago) WEBAbstract. Police officers are subjected, daily, to critical incidents and work-related stressors that negatively impact nearly every aspect of their personal and …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8575544/

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Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness (LEMHWA) Program …

(8 days ago) WEBThe Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act of 2017 (LEMHWA) was signed into law in January 2018, recognizing that law enforcement agencies need and deserve …

https://cops.usdoj.gov/lemhwaresources

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Critical Issues Series - Police Executive Research Forum

(Just Now) WEBCritical Issues in Policing Series. Rethinking the Police Response to Mental Health-Related Calls: Promising Models (2023) Responding to the Staffing Crisis: Innovations in …

https://www.policeforum.org/critical-issues-series

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