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Local nonprofit proposes discreet mental‑health decal for homes to help first responders
Summary
A local nonprofit, Speak Up Let's Talk About Mental Health, presented a mental‑health decal aimed at signaling to first responders that a household may need a crisis‑informed approach. Council members and staff discussed rollout, connections to existing registries and concerns about symbol design and distribution.
Dawn Hanley, president of the local nonprofit Speak Up Let's Talk About Mental Health, urged the Public Safety Coordinating Council to support a discreet window decal her group developed to alert first responders to a possible mental health crisis at a home.
Hanley, who spoke about her son Scott’s struggles with schizophrenia and his death by suicide, said the decal uses a honeycomb motif and the dopamine molecule to avoid stigmatizing language while still signaling to trained officers that a different approach may be needed. “If law enforcement, first responders saw a symbol that was on their window or on the front door when they walked up … maybe they would be able to just take a second and think how they're gonna interact with that person,” Hanley said.
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