{"id":586093,"date":"2022-04-02T09:18:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T09:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=203694"},"modified":"2022-04-02T09:18:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T09:18:58","slug":"denvers-program-to-dispatch-mental-health-teams-instead-of-police-is-so-successful-it-is-expanding-5-fold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/04\/02\/denvers-program-to-dispatch-mental-health-teams-instead-of-police-is-so-successful-it-is-expanding-5-fold\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver\u2019s Program To Dispatch Mental Health Teams Instead Of Police Is So Successful It Is Expanding 5-Fold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After dispatching mental health teams, instead of police officers, to certain 911 emergency calls, the city of Denver is proclaiming their pilot program a huge success\u2014and expanding it significantly. Since\u00a0June 2020, the Support Team Assisted Response (STAR) has deployed medical and behavioral health clinicians to respond to over 2,200 low risk calls reporting trespassing, intoxication, or mental health crises involving poverty, homelessness or addiction. In all that time, STAR teams have never called for police back-up due to a safety issue, according to\u00a0their January report.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/denvers-program-to-dispatch-mental-health-teams-instead-of-police-is-so-successful-it-is-expanding-5-fold\/\">Denver\u2019s Program To Dispatch Mental Health Teams Instead Of Police Is So Successful It Is Expanding 5-Fold<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/denvers-program-to-dispatch-mental-health-teams-instead-of-police-is-so-successful-it-is-expanding-5-fold\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After dispatching mental health teams, instead of police officers, to certain 911 emergency calls, the city of Denver is proclaiming their pilot program a huge success\u2014and expanding it significantly. Since\u00a0June 2020, the Support Team Assisted Response &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3642,5725,10406],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586692,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586093\/revisions\/586692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}