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Municipality unveils crisis-response dashboard as part of Safe Anchorage plan
Summary
Anchorage officials presented a draft crisis-response metrics dashboard and updates on the Safe Anchorage crisis continuum, including expanded mobile teams, coordination with upcoming stabilization centers, and plans to standardize definitions for monthly reporting.
Thea, special assistant to the mayor, told the Assembly Public Health and Safety Committee on Oct. 1 that the mayor—s Safe Anchorage public-safety strategy includes a goal to increase "more equal access" to crisis care and that the municipality is developing a crisis continuum covering "someone to call, someone to respond, [and] a place to go."
The administration and the innovation team said the city has prioritized immediate steps to divert appropriate calls to the care line, expand mobile crisis teams and improve places for short-term stabilization while larger crisis-stabilization centers come online next year.
"Our goal is really to improve and optimize our response to people in behavioral health crisis, so that we can reduce community impacts, we can sustain services," Thea said.
Ben Matheson, a data…
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