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Starting in June, if someone calls 911 with a mental health crisis, dispatchers can deploy clinicians instead of officers.
WASHINGTON — If someone in D.C. calls 911 with a mental health crisis, soon it might not be police showing up at their door.
In June, the district will start deploying community response teams, made up of behavioral health experts and peers with similar lived experiences, to certain calls for behavioral health incidents.
The pilot is a partnership between the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, the Office of the City Administrator, the Office of Unified Communications (OUC), and the Department of Behavioral Health (DBH)…
