Popular programs where social workers and therapists respond to people in mental health crises in lieu of cops emerges as ...

County funding for Santa Rosa’s InRESPONSE program is slated to be cut by about half under a proposed three-year agreement as ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Kern BHRS's mobile crisis response units received more than $800,000 in additional funding to support their work to help people struggling with substance abuse or a mental ...

The University of Miami has turned 100 years of experience navigating high-stakes situations into a tested and trusted communications model—and the leadership team is ready to share what they’ve ...

As Justin Chase, CEO of Solari Crisis & Human Services and a licensed social worker, explains: “Every call to 988 is an ...

Amarachi Onyewuenyi is a public health science and biology major with a minor in political science. She is a 2025-26 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara ...

The fatal police shooting Thursday in Southwest Baltimore brings up questions of how the city handles behavioral health ...

The Marion County Sheriff's Office team that responds to active mental health crisis calls returned earlier this month after disbanding due to a loss of funding. The Mobile Crisis Response Team, which ...

The following excerpt is drawn from the Prologue of Disaster Nation, a new book by David J. Alexander that examines how America’s disaster response system has become reactive, fragmented, and fiscally ...

Once people connect with Crisis Call Center workers, they will be offered support and the next steps to get care based on ...

Macchione is the director of San Diego County’s Health and Human Services Agency. Bergmann is the director of the agency’s Behavioral Health Services Division. Both live in San Diego. In recent years, ...