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Aurora outlines crisis-response teams, sees most calls resolved without involuntary transport
Summary
City staff described expansion and operations of Aurora’s unarmed and co-responder crisis programs — the Aurora Mobile Response Team, Crisis Response Team and a Targeted Violence Prevention unit — and said data show most 2024 contacts remained voluntary and people stayed in the community.
Callie Tucker, Crisis Intervention Program Administrator in Aurora’s Housing and Community Services department, briefed the City Council on the city’s crisis-response units and said the programs combine clinician-led responses with medical or police partners.
“I am Callie Tucker. I’m the Crisis Intervention Program Administrator within Housing and Community Services,” Tucker said, outlining the Aurora Mobile Response Team, the Crisis Response Team and the Targeted Violence Prevention program that operates within CRT.
Tucker described three staffed models: the Aurora Mobile Response Team (AMRT), a clinician paired with an EMT for lower-acuity behavioral-health calls; the Crisis Response Team (CRT), a…
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