A collaboration with American Public Media’s Call to Mind highlighting how Durham, North Carolina, has reimagined its mental health crisis response system — and what it has learned.
Mental Health and Police Training
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Sending Unarmed Responders Instead of Police: What We’ve Learned
There are more than 100 response teams nationwide, but experts say more research on their impact is needed.
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The Fifth Branch: Keeping People Safe
How do you keep crisis responders and the people they’re helping safe?
We look at HEART’s impact on the safety of Durham residents in crisis, the mental health workers responding, and the police.
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The Fifth Branch: Convincing the Cops
How do you convince police officers that it makes sense to send unarmed mental health workers to some 911 calls?
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The Fifth Branch: A New Series from Tradeoffs
Introducing The Fifth Branch – a special podcast series from Tradeoffs and The Marshall Project. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts so you don’t miss the first episode next week.
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One County’s 20-Year Effort to Decriminalize Mental Illness
Miami-Dade County has spent the last two decades trying to connect people in mental distress with services instead of jail cells. What have they learned?