Dr. Nikki Johnson is the Denver Sheriff Department’s first chief of mental health services and is charged with improving in-custody mental health services
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The Connecticut proposal would be a major expansion of voluntary registry programs already in place at a large number of PDs across the country
The team responded to 748 low-level calls since June, none of which required police or led to jail time, according to a new progress report
The Crisis Assistance Helping Out on the Streets unit, CAHOOTS for short, sends teams of medics and trained mental health workers to urgent calls for medical or psychological help instead of police
LEOs often interact with the same mentally ill individuals again and again. Here are three solutions for breaking the cycle.
“The counselors give us more tools to use, so we get the best possible outcome.”
The city will go forward with both a pilot program that excludes police and a separate co-responder plan that includes police officers, paramedics and mental health professionals
The unit consists of five specially trained behavioral health deputies, five homeless outreach deputies and three behavioral health care managers
Communities nationwide are changing their response to individuals experiencing a mental health crisis — here's what law enforcement needs to know
The objective of the program was to divert people from jail and connect them with treatment where possible
There are many lessons to be shared from the partnership between the Eugene Police Department and CAHOOTS to deliver mental health outreach
'The magnitude of societal issues has far exceeded what law enforcement and mental health providers can effectively address alone.'
Community collaborations provide access to many innovative programs such as peer specialists and mental health urgent care facilities
Local innovation based on the needs of individual communities has resulted in a variety of police-mental health collaboration programs
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