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  • Responding to a mental health crisis without badges or guns

    December 19, 2022 |

    The Kansas Leadership Center Journal (KLC Journal) |

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    Response Location: United States, Eugene, Oregon

    CAHOOTS offers counseling, conflict resolution, mediation and referral and transportation to social services and/or basic emergency medical care to people experiencing a mental health crisis. CAHOOTS is available 24/7 and sends out crisis workers and medics as an alternative to uniformed police officers. CAHOOTS has significantly lightened law enforcement’s load, allowing officers to focus more on other public safety issues while preventing unnecessarily sending people through the criminal justice system.

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  • Connecticut's turnaround of troubled juvenile system sets a standard, says justice-equity organization - Juvenile Justice Information Exchange

    December 01, 2022 |

    Juvenile Justice Information Exchange |

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    Response Location: United States, Hartford, Connecticut

    As part of a revamp of its juvenile justice system, Connecticut launched youth treatment centers where residents meet regularly with counselors and mental health professionals. The centers focus on providing individualized care and a more welcoming atmosphere than traditional juvenile detention programs.

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  • The pandemic helped usher an alternative form of treatment into Fort Worth: psychedelic-assisted therapy.

    October 24, 2022 |

    Fort Worth Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Fort Worth, Texas

    Studies show that ketamine and other psychedelics could be useful in treating conditions like depression and PTSD when used in partnership with therapy. Psychedelic-assisted therapy prescribed by registered practitioners is gaining traction as an alternative to medication, or as another option when traditional treatments fail.

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  • Un village bon samaritain redonne espoir d'une autre vie à ces rejetés

    October 24, 2022 |

    Radio Côte d'Ivoire |

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    Response Location: Côte d'Ivoire, Trinlé-Diapleu

    Le centre d’accueil Victor Houali, qui traite des personnes atteintes de maladies mentales, est intégré au village où il se trouve afin que les patients ne soient pas isolés. Les spécialistes du centre forment les villageois qui travaillent comme soignants sur les symptômes psychiatriques, les médicaments, et d’autres outils de traitement, tels que la musique.

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  • Police responses to mental health crisis calls are reexamined

    October 04, 2022 |

    News21 |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    GRAND Mental Health’s iPad Program connects people who may be experiencing a crisis with trained mental health professionals rather than law enforcement by video chatting on iPads. GRAND Mental Health, which serves 12 counties, has distributed more than 10,200 iPads in six years. They have distributed about 8,500 of them to clients and nearly 1,700 to first responders and hospital personnel.

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  • Outpatient therapies now offered locally target treatment-resistant depression

    September 29, 2022 |

    Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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    Response Location: United States, Brattleboro, Vermont

    Transcranial magnetic stimulation is being used to treat people with treatment-resistant depression. The noninvasive procedure uses magnetic fields to stimulate nerves in the brain to improve symptoms of depression. So far 19 people have undergone the program at Brattleboro Retreat — many of which have seen improvements in their symptoms — and more than 300 treatments have been completed to date.

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  • How Kalamazoo can address the shortage of psychiatrists -- and make a name for itself in the process

    August 21, 2022 |

    MLive.com |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    The Kalamazoo Collaborative Care Program provides social workers and other mental-health expertise to help primary-care physicians treat patients with behavioral health issues. The program is currently working to expand by creating a psychiatric clinic to help further address the shortage of psychiatrists and mental health professionals.

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  • Should Kalamazoo County's first-responders include mental-health clinicians?

    June 15, 2022 |

    MLive.com |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    Crisis Intervention Training classes provide law enforcement with the necessary knowledge to effectively help those experiencing a mental health crisis. Currently, planning is underway to enhance this training to help strengthen the relationship between law enforcement and the mental health system by better collecting data, screening calls and opening a downtown urgent care center.

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  • Tucson crisis center expanding services for faster mental health care

    March 03, 2022 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    The Crisis Response Center provides mental health and crisis care services as an alternative to emergency rooms or jails. The center is staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and offers a variety of services focused on recovery for children, teens and adults struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse. The Center is set to expand ahead of the new 988 dialing code for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Once expansions are done, the Center will have the capacity to serve between 400 and 600 extra visits a month, on top of the 800 to 1,000 adults who visit the center each month.

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  • From LA jail, two inmates pioneer care for mentally ill peers

    May 18, 2021 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles County, California

    At the Los Angeles County Jail, two men incarcerated on pending murder charges created a homegrown approach to improving the care and conditions of confinement for people with serious mental illness. Their approach is simple: showing love and care for people whose illness makes them feel like outcasts. By helping fellow incarcerated men attend counseling and other programs, and by tending to their personal needs, the initiative has contributed to a significant drop in people harming themselves. Fewer restraints are needed, and the pods where the program operates are notably cleaner and calmer than before.

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