A federally-funded pilot program conducted by Clark County found a crisis intervention team is effective in keeping people ...

Clark County commissioners on Tuesday heard results from a pilot program that tested a new crisis response model to assist ...

Wheeling Police Chief Shawn Schwertfeger, center, and Lata Menon, CEO of First Choice Services, left, talked to a group of local mental health officials, local law enforcement and others at the Wood ...

WASHINGTON — To help military police and other first responders care for individuals experiencing a crisis, the Special Victims Capabilities Division at the U.S. Army Military Police School developed ...

This article originally appeared in the January 2026 issue of Town&Gown magazine. When Ferguson Township Police Sergeant Ryan ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Thanks to a federal grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, the Olathe Police Department is enhancing a unit that pairs clinicians from the Johnson County Mental Health Center ...

APPLETON – Twenty years ago, Appleton became the first police department in Wisconsin to implement a new approach to policing incidents involving mental illness. It was 2003. John Wallschlaeger, then ...

Today – Huntsman Mental Health Institute (HMHI) released its Community Crisis Intervention Annual Report for 2021, showing the demand for mental health crisis services reached record heights over the ...

Wake Forest police officers complete 40-hour Crisis Intervention Team training to better manage mental health crises.

Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training is expanding, although still not mandated in Connecticut. It prepares police officers for calls involving people in a mental health crisis, which cannot always ...

There's a lot of talk about mental health and gun violence after the school shooting in Uvalde. Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker weighed in on the issue saying her city is doing what it can and that ...

ALL RIGHT, CASSIE. WELL, IT’S OKAY TO NEED HELP. THAT’S THE MESSAGE THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS IS SPREADING TO THE COMMUNITY AS IT TACKLES AN EVER GROWING MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS. SO FAR, IN JUST TWO WEEKS, ...