Mental Health First Aid for Public Safety
Mental Health First Aid for Public Safety provides law officers and staff with more response options to help them de-escalate incidents and better understand mental illnesses so they can respond to mental health-related situations appropriately without compromising safety. Learn more: download the Mental Health First Aid for Public Safety one-pager.
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How Mental Health First Aid in Public Safety is helping Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
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Why Mental Health Matters in Public Safety
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1 in 4 fatal law enforcement encounters involves an individual experiencing mental illness.
How Mental Health First Aid for Public Safety Can Help
Improves the way law enforcement interacts with people facing mental health and addiction challenges.
Models de-escalation techniques useful when responding to people in crisis safely and effectively.
Teaches skills to safely address a comrade’s mental health or substance use challenge.
Increases mental health and substance use literacy.
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What do we do when our world is turned upside down? During a pandemic, when the playbook is being written in real time, first responders across the country do what they’re trained to do: We go back to the basics and let our training guide us. We instinctively go to what we know and have been trained in, even when the entire situation is unknown. […]...
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