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- Communities in the U.S. are enhancing mental health crisis response systems to decrease the involvement of the criminal justice system for those experiencing mental health challenges.
- Response models are categorized into non-law enforcement and law enforcement-based approaches, each with distinct characteristics.
- There is significant variation in aspects like team staffing, dispatch methods, operational hours, response speed, and crisis resolution techniques.
Article Abstract
Communities across the United States are working to improve community-based mental health crisis response, with 1 goal being to reduce criminal legal system involvement among individuals with mental illnesses, behavioral disorders, or mental health crises. Existing and recently developed models can generally be divided into non-law enforcement-based response models and law enforcement-based response models. Wide variation exists in terms of staffing, how response teams are called out or dispatched, hours of operation and immediacy of response, and approaches to crisis resolution.
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