May 2022

Crisis and Community Trauma, Innovations, Workforce

Alaska’s Growing Behavioral Health Aide Workforce

Behavioral health aides help provide a community-based resource for people in rural and remote Alaska.

The Misunderstanding of Crisis Intervention Teams

Challenges, Crisis and Community Trauma, Equity, Innovations, Workforce

The Misunderstanding of the Crisis Intervention Team Program

How a community partnership with law enforcement helps divert people from a law enforcement response.

Virginia has developed a statewide 911 behavioral health call diversion matrix and protocols.

Crisis and Community Trauma, Equity, Innovations

Virginia Develops Statewide 911 Call Matrix to Divert Mental Health and Substance Use Crises

Virginia has developed a statewide 911 behavioral health call diversion matrix and protocols.

Many schools have a police presence but are without in-school mental health services. Youth mobile response can fill in the gaps.

Challenges, Child and Adolescent, COVID-19, Crisis and Community Trauma, Equity, Innovations

Youth Mobile Response: A Tool for Decriminalizing Mental Health

Many schools have a police presence but are without in-school mental health services. Youth mobile response can fill in the gaps.

Challenges, Innovations

Mental Health Experts in Australia Say Nation’s Suicide Prevention Plan Must Focus on Technology and Prevention

“Working together, we can build a mental health and suicide prevention system that is genuinely joined up, properly resourced and provides for all Australians the most simple but powerful comfort: that they matter” -The Hon Scott Morrison MP, Prime Minister of Australia on releasing the National Mental Health and Suicide