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ALTERNATIVE RESPONSE - VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

Registeration for the June 9-10 Alternative Mobile Services Association virtual conference on mobile crisis and alternative response is now open! Two days - two keynoters - twenty speakers - CE credit. Use the BLUE BUTTON below to get registered. Remember – AMSA organizational members attend the virtual conference free.

Partial Scholarships are now available for full-time students and people with lived experience of mental illness, addiction, or homelessness. Thanks to conference sponsors Access: Supports for Living, Trek Medics, Transcending Hope Recovery Homes, Centerstone, and Advocates for supporting scholarships for the virtual conference.

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ALTERNATIVE RESPONSE - IN-PERSON CONFERENCE

The Policing Project at NYU Law, the Center for Innovations in Community Safety at Georgetown Law, and the Alternative Mobile Services Association will be co-hosting a national convening on alternative first response. The Advancing the Field of Alternative Response Convening will be held at New York University from June 3-5, 2025.

The convening will include plenary sessions and smaller break-out sessions serving alternative response practitioners, municipal leaders, researchers, and other stakeholders who want to collaborate on sharing promising new practices to the evolving state of this field. Topics will include workforce development, sustainable funding, narrative change, dispatch practices, community engagement, evaluation, responses to mediation, disability justice, and more.

Use the BLUE BUTTON below to get registered.

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Welcome to AMSA, Integral Care of Austin Texas!

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AMSA TALKS

Doug Walton retired as a sergeant with the Roseburg Police Department in 2025 and immediately went to work for Adapt Integrated Health Care as a crisis case manager and trainer of their mobile crisis team. But Doug's transition from police work to mobile crisis work started long before retirement, and this May 2025 interview shows how mobile team leaders can identify and recruit officers post-retirement to crisis work.

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Los Angeles County Virtual Meet & Greet

Attention social workers, nurses, psych techs, psychologists, and marriage and family therapists - we are hiring for Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health Alternative Crisis Response programs! RSVP for a Virtual Meet & Greet on Thursday, June 5 at 6 PM Pacific.

RSVP: https://lnkd.in/gmY_VGsK

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