August 09, 2022
Police often respond to mental health- and substance abuse-related crises, despite lacking the proper training to effectively intervene in such circumstances.
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July 31, 2022
Brian Smith, the director of the Office of Performance and Innovation, was lauded in Berlin while uncertainty looms over his future with the city of Minneapolis.
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July 26, 2022
The CBS special, “Code Blue: Officers in crisis,” takes a deeper look at what the department can do to provide better mental health support for officers
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July 21, 2022
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the dire state of nursing has been grist for endless headlines, studies, and think pieces, as has the epidemic of clinician mental health problems.
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July 19, 2022
Police officers are too often called to solve problems better addressed by mental-health workers, advocates say.
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July 18, 2022
Exacerbated by the pandemic, inadequate access to mental health care is a longstanding crisis in the United States, and the mental health workforce shortage is a key contributing factor.
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