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email article Mobile crisis teams and peer support services can help to serve those struggling with a mental health crisis and connect them to care, but can they replace police? As calls for defunding the police increase, the question has become even more timely and was front and center at a hearing on Thursday of the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism for the Senate Judiciary Committee, which focused on policing and behavioral health. Among both the subcommittee members and the other witnesses, there appeared to be broad support for improving police training in deesc...

Program Manager for allcove (Peer Support Services) Posted by Program Summary: allcove is a first of its kind in the U.S., inspired by the headspace model, developed in Australia, and the Foundry model, developed in British Columbia, which create stand-alone, integrated, wholistic care sites for young people ages 12-25 to access early mental and primary health services, along with supported education and employment, substance use counseling and peer and social services support. allcove centers proactively engage with their community to raise awareness of the service, reduce stigma around ment...

(Source: The Harbor) By Michael Praats | April 13, 2021 at 3:13 PM EDT - Updated April 13 at 4:33 PM WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The Harbor, Wilmington’s only state-funded detox facility, is at the end of a six-month extension, and we’re being told the facility will not be able to continue offering services. Back in August, the facility announced it would be closing its doors due to the transfer of its property by New Hanover County to NHRMC. The facility was originally supposed to close in October but a last-minute change of plans allowed RHA Health Services, the operator of t...