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Task force schedules Responding with Compassion workshop; WestCare/Thriving Minds and police liaison to present mobile response options
Summary
The committee set a date and formed a subcommittee to organize a Responding with Compassion workshop that will feature Miami-Dade mobile response staff (WestCare/Thriving Minds) and a law-enforcement liaison; the workshop will teach alternatives to traditional 911 response for mental-health crises.
The Miami Lakes Mental Health Task Force agreed to hold a Responding with Compassion workshop to explain mobile-response alternatives and to educate residents and providers on how to interact with first responders during mental-health crises.
Staff and committee members described the workshop as a community education event featuring clinicians from WestCare/Thriving Minds and local law enforcement. A task-force member said WestCare’s mobile response…
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