Passaic police will get help from mental health professionals when responding to crisis calls as part of the ARRIVE Together ...

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 ...

In an emergency, police are often the first called to the scene. But they are rarely equipped to deal with complex mental health crises. South Australia is one of a number of states trialing a program ...

When 25-year-old Alex LaMorie called Howard County Police for help during a mental health crisis, his family expected officers trained to de-escalate the encounter. Instead, police fatally shot the ...

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (LEX 18) — For decades, the conversation around mental health has been a taboo subject, but in recent years, those conversations have become more prevalent. From dementia to autism and ...

As many as 20 percent of police calls involve a mental health crisis, and in recent weeks many of these calls have turned ...

I know both sides of the badge. I’ve been a police officer walking into unpredictable situations, and I’ve been a therapist sitting across from clients in the throes of trauma, depression or psychosis ...

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As Friday marks the end of National Police Week, there are new efforts on Capitol Hill aimed at improving mental health ...

TROY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -The Emotionally Distressed Persons Response Team (EDPRT) was created by Troy Police in 2006. It’s the second of its kind in New York following Rochester; helping officers better ...

According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, middle-aged men have the highest rate of suicide in the US. In fact, 2018 statistics indicate that men died by suicide 3.6 times more often ...