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Can New York reform its responses to people in mental


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When officers from the Rochester Police Department arrived on the scene of a family dispute involving a 9-year-old girl in emotional distress in January, a brand-new tool was at the city’s disposal: Rochester’s new Person in Crisis team. Launched earlier that month, the PIC team was created as an alternative response to mental health, substance abuse and other emergency calls that would normally involve police or paramedics. Instead of police officers being the first responders to these calls – and risking the potential that the encounter could escalate into a violent one, as was the case in the death of Daniel Prude in Rochester last year – a two-person team of crisis intervention counselors and social workers would show up with the aim of de-escalating, assessing what level of care the person in crisis needed and helping to connect the person to the relevant resources, such as a mental health urgent care center. ....

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Social workers to respond to mental health 911 calls in NYC pilot program


Social workers to respond to mental health 911 calls in NYC pilot program
Mental health emergencies
New York City is launching a pilot program in Harlem and East Harlem. Social workers and EMTs will respond to certain mental health 911 calls instead of police.
NEW YORK - ThriveNYC is a new pilot program that sends social workers to answer nonviolent mental health emergency calls instead of police officers.
New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams supported it.
For far too long, our city s response to mental health calls has been a  failure, Williams said.
The ThriveNYC will begin in the spring in Harlem and East Harlem. Those police precincts that handled the highest number of mental health 911 calls last year. ....

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