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- Raleigh’s New Crisis Call Diversion Program
- Hillsborough Artist John Beerman Changes Course
- ICYMI: Wake County’s Long-Term Water Sustainability Plan
- Things to Do Around the Triangle This Week
- Chatham Estates Residents Have Six Months to Relocate
Good morning, readers.
In November, Raleigh followed Durham’s lead in launching a crisis call diversion program: a team of licensed mental health counselors embedded within the 911 call center who are trained to de-escalate mental and behavioral health crises and connect people with long-term support.
The program is one component of Raleigh CARES (Crisis Alternative Response for Empathy and Support), the city’s answer to community members’ desire for more compassionate and specialized alternatives to policing.
“In the history of mental health, people usually don’t have power of choice. A lot of times when someone was having a mental health crisis, they were treated like a criminal and put in the back of a police car and transported to whatever hospital was available,” says Ashley Wilson, one of the three counselors who staff the diversion program. “With us, we give choices.”
I spoke with Wilson and her colleagues about how the crisis call diversion program works and how it’s going so far. Read the story below, and have a good weekend.
—Chloe
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