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Crisis response in Denver progresses, with many other communities watching
Author(s) -
Enos Gary
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32518
Subject(s) - crisis response , statistic , mental health , service (business) , rapid response team , point (geometry) , psychology , public relations , political science , medical emergency , medicine , business , psychiatry , marketing , statistics , mathematics , geometry
Now in the fourth month of their pilot effort to respond to some mental health crisis calls without a police presence, leaders of Denver's Support Team Assisted Response (STAR) program can point to one rather remarkable statistic. As of early last week, not one of the more than 400 calls for service that the program's teams of a social worker and a paramedic have responded to have required a follow‐up call for police assistance.