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Police
Departments Bring Mental Health Professionals to Help Respond to
Crisis Calls
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Megan
Quattlebaum, director of the CSG Justice Center, recently weighed in
on an WSB-TV story about the rise of community responder
programs as an alternative to traditional law enforcement
responses. “I would say there’s been almost an explosion of
interest in other models for responding to people in behavioral
health crisis,” she said. The CSG Justice Center surveyed 70 police
departments across the country and found that 76 percent of them use
a program similar to the one WSB-TV profiled in Alexandria, Virginia,
where police say that of the calls that could have resulted in
an arrest, 71 percent were resolved without anyone going to jail
since the program started last year.
Read the article >
P.S. Learn
more about community responder models by checking out the CSG Justice
Center’s Expanding
First Response toolkit and attending our event
today at noon ET.
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How One
County Screens and Connects People in Jail to Housing
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Officials in Salt Lake County, Utah, developed a
public dashboard to help identify and connect individuals in the
county jail with housing and services. This collaboration occurs
across county agencies, the jail, and community-based providers. In
this video, learn about some of the ways that the dashboard helps
officials connect people to permanent housing options.
Watch the video >
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Expanding First Response Assessment Tool Launch
This webinar will launch the Expanding First Response Assessment
Tool, an online, interactive tool that will provide tailored,
step-by-step guidance for communities to plan and implement a new
community responder program. Join us and learn about how
jurisdictions across the U.S. are reimagining their approach to
public safety by investing in community responder programs.
Date: Wednesday, November
16, 2022
Time: 12:00–1:30
p.m. ET
Register >
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Addressing Concerns and Responding to Myths About
Safety during Crisis Calls
This webinar will highlight the challenges and benefits of creating
a cross-system collaboration between partners including law
enforcement, behavioral health, and EMS. Join us and learn from national
experts about best practices for responding to calls for services
with people experiencing a behavioral health crisis.
Date: Wednesday, November
16, 2022
Time: 2:00–3:30
p.m. ET
Register >
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credit: querbeet via Canva
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