Local governments across the United States are responding to calls to divest police of responsibilities for responding to non-criminal emergencies by creating non-police behavioral health crisis ...

While interacting with students across the college, faculty and staff may be confronted with situations in which a student is displaying concerning behavior. The Behavioral Intervention Team is a ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The city of Minneapolis is expanding a new initiative designed to help those suffering a behavioral crisis without involving police to potentially escalate things. Initially launched on ...

The School Climate Transformation Grant was released in 2014 as a competitive grant to support state educational agencies to develop, enhance, or expand systems of support for, and technical ...

Minneapolis uses the Behavioral Crisis Response (BCR) team to provide crisis intervention, counseling and connection to support services to residents for free. The city partnered with Canopy Roots, a ...

In addition to the police, fire, medical and other personnel who are trained to respond to different kinds of emergencies, Boulder employs another, less common type of first responder. Enter the ...

The Baltimore Police Department has made “substantial progress” in how its officers respond to people with behavioral health issues but fallen short of getting enough officers to take advanced ...

Distressed individuals can display alarming behaviors. When someone is exhibiting distress, a brief safety assessment should occur. If there is a significant risk of violence, UTSA Police should be ...

Boulder is now operating an internal co-responder program in an effort to support those experiencing behavioral health crises. The Crisis Intervention Response Team program pairs a licensed clinician ...