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SAN DIEGO - Progress of Mobile Crisis Response Teams Since 2021, August 13, 2024
County Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer says Telecare’s MCRT, “can lessen the chance that an individual ends up on our streets it can help folks manage their conditions before they spiral down into a darker darker place.”
Since it’s inception, the MCRT has helped more than 7,800 people and responded to 13,000 calls. Lawson-Remer says more than 80% of the calls the team responded to have kept people out of emergency rooms and hospitals. More than 50% of the calls were successfully resolved while in the field.
DAYTON - State to expand mobile response service for youth in crisis; seeks providers - August 9, 2024
Up to $12 million in funding available; much of southwest Ohio is currently not covered by mobile response stabilization services
TULSA - COPES adds staff, expands services, August 13, 2024
In February, COPES with Family and Children's Services got approval to expand its operations, nearly doubling its workforce.
COPES has seen a 51% increase in mobile responses since February and assisted in 14,661 calls in 2024 so far. COPES also has a co-responder team which Programs that partner COPES clinicians with police and fire to respond to calls.
John Mulligan: "We get calls from police officers, schools. Just about anybody you can think of that would be a part of their support system. That's usually how our calls begin."
SAN ANTONIO - Mental health response program in middle of rapid expansion
LOS ANGELES - Nearly a third of LAPD shootings since 2017 involved a person in a mental health crisis - May 21, 2024
FORT LEE - Victoria Lee killing proves NJ needs new police protocols people in mental health crises - August 17, 2024
It took just 33 seconds for Fort Lee police officers to decide to break down the door of an apartment, agree on who among them would potentially take “lethal” and “less lethal” measures, and then break down the door and for one of them, Officer Tony Pickens Jr. to shoot and kill Victoria Lee, 25.
SUBURBAN DETROIT - Man killed by officer during mental health crisis - June 18, 2024
MEDINA - Woman killed by Ohio deputies suffered from mental health issues, family says - August 14, 2024
Mobile Crisis Workers Must Unionize - Joe fromLongIsland, August 8, 2024
As a peer support specialist, I consider the work I do my vocation. I use my lived experience in recovery from a mood disorder to help folks who are in the midst of crisis to work through their suffering and toward healing. As a dedicated community servant, I was drawn to a role on a mobile crisis team. These teams are being created and deployed throughout California to address gaps in care. This is crucial work that will greatly benefit the well-being of individuals and our society. And as a society, we need to compensate and value these teams accordingly.
Our teams are dispatched to help people facing mental or behavioral health crises. We de-escalate the situation and connect people to additional care. The role also includes transporting people in crisis, communicating with law enforcement, and taking on a significant amount of risk and potential liability. It means serving as a first responder on calls that often involve severe risk of suicide and harm. Interacting with folks on the worst day of their lives is draining, difficult work. This is not an easy lift for $23.84 an hour, my starting salary.
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The National Crisis Continuum Conference aka CrisisCon24 is taking place in Phoenix October 14 - 17, 2024.
Learn more - https://www.crisiscon.org/
This conference brings together crisis providers, partners, advocates, and payers for three days of learning, connecting, and growing. Services represented at this conference include:
Crisis call centers
Mobile crisis teams
Crisis residential programs
Peer support and respite programs
Psychiatric urgent care
Crisis stabilization programs
Partial hospital programs
JOBS
Lane County Mobile Crisis (Eugene) is hiring.
Behavioral Health Supervisor - $77,500 - $113,963
Mental Health Specialist 1 - $26.45 - $35.31 Hourly
Mental Health Specialist 2 - $31.39 - $41.95 Hourly
These positions are eligible for sign-on compensation of $4,500. Lane County may cover some or all of your moving expenses.
Paragon Behavioral Health (rural Colorado)
Peer Recovery Professional - Crisis Team - $22-$25 Hourly
Director, Colorado Office of Gun Violence Prevention - $94,008 - $123,000
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