Mental Health Experts Will Respond To Some Emergency Calls Instead Of Police As Part Of New Far North Side Program – Block Club Chicago

Trilogy’s first responder effort is borne out of a state program started last year to fund local mental health crisis teams throughout the state. The first responder program went live Jan. 10. So far, it has responded to 14 mental health emergencies in the area plus worked with more than a dozen referrals to their crisis services.
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TiredofFools
4 years ago

Good luck with that!

Streeterville
4 years ago

Mental health experts responding to police calls? Oh, please, let’s stop this naive SJW idea before anyone gets seriously injured.

An experienced cop has far more relevant “mental health crisis expertise”, from on-the-job work-experience and plain commonsense, than the likely recent graduate from the many 3rd-rate master degree programs in social work, that freshly-licensed clinical social worker who is supposed “mental health expert” responding to mental health emergency calls. Expect headlines shortly, shrieking about the devoted social worker grievously injured “in line-of-duty” during a redirected “mental health wellness” emergency call, and another big lawsuit payout to follow.

The Paraclete
4 years ago

That will work until one is downed with an ax

debtsor
4 years ago
Reply to  The Paraclete

To the communist, twenty dead social workers axed to death is evidence the program is working!

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