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Shaker Heights First Call and Ohio quick-response teams seek sustained funding to keep clinicians paired with first responders
Summary
Shaker Heights and task force leaders asked the Public Safety Committee for a $400,000 allocation to keep 'First Call' crisis clinicians embedded with police and fire; statewide deflection teams urged continued support, citing reductions in overdose deaths and service cost savings.
Shaker Heights officials and statewide deflection leaders urged lawmakers to fund programs that pair mental-health clinicians with first responders and to sustain quick-response teams that connect people to treatment after overdoses.
Mayor David Weiss and Fire Chief Patrick Sweeney described First Call, a Shaker Heights program that embeds mental-health professionals with police and fire to respond to behavioral-health incidents. Weiss told the House Public Safety Committee the program reduces risk…
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