Cops, clinicians, or both? Collaborative approaches to responding to behavioral health emergencies

ME Balfour, A Hahn Stephenson… - Psychiatric …, 2022 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
How a community responds to behavioral health emergencies is both a public health issue
and social justice issue. Individuals experiencing a behavioral health crisis often receive …

Re‐examining mental health crisis intervention: A rapid review comparing outcomes across police, co‐responder and non‐police models

N Marcus, V Stergiopoulos - Health & Social Care in the …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Police are the default first responders in most mental health crisis intervention models
worldwide, resulting in a heavy burden on police, perceived criminalization of individuals …

A systematic review of co-responder models of police mental health 'street'triage

S Puntis, D Perfect, A Kirubarajan, S Bolton, F Davies… - BMC psychiatry, 2018 - Springer
Background Police mental health street triage is an increasingly common intervention when
dealing with police incidents in which there is a suspected mental health component. We …

Acute psychiatric care: approaches to increasing the range of services and improving access and quality of care

S Johnson, C Dalton‐Locke, J Baker… - World …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Acute services for mental health crises are very important to service users and their
supporters, and consume a substantial share of mental health resources in many countries …

Co-responding police-mental health programs: A review

GK Shapiro, A Cusi, M Kirst, P O'Campo… - … and policy in mental …, 2015 - Springer
Co-responding police-mental health programs are increasingly used to respond to
'Emotionally Disturbed Persons' in the community; however, there is limited understanding of …

[PDF][PDF] Crisis response services for people with mental illnesses or intellectual and developmental disabilities: A review of the literature on police-based and other first …

AC Watson, MT Compton, LG Pope - 2019 - milwaukeemhtf.org
Serving Safely is a national initiative of the Vera Institute of Justice designed to improve
interactions between police and people with mental illnesses and intellectual and …

Barriers and facilitators to implementing an urban co-responding police-mental health team

K Bailey, SR Paquet, BR Ray, E Grommon, EM Lowder… - Health & Justice, 2018 - Springer
Background In an effort to reduce the increasing number of persons with mental illness (PMI)
experiencing incarceration, co-responding police-mental health teams are being utilized as …

Police and mental health clinician partnership in response to mental health crisis: A qualitative study

B McKenna, T Furness, J Oakes… - International journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Police officers as first responders to acute mental health crisis in the community, commonly
transport people in mental health crisis to a hospital emergency department. However …

Interagency collaboration models for people with mental ill health in contact with the police: a systematic scoping review

A Parker, A Scantlebury, A Booth, JC MacBryde… - BMJ open, 2018 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To identify existing evidence on interagency collaboration between law
enforcement, emergency services, statutory services and third sector agencies regarding …

Crisis response model preferences of mental health care clients with prior misdemeanor arrests and of their family and friends

LG Pope, A Patel, E Fu, M Zingman… - Psychiatric …, 2023 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
The overrepresentation of people with serious mental illnesses in the criminal legal system
has spurred the development of crisis response models to improve or reduce police …