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Baltimore County crisis co-responder teams cite high diversion rates but say family dynamics, resource limits create persistent gaps
Summary
County crisis-services representatives said co-responder teams partnering clinicians with officers divert the majority of crisis calls from emergency departments and arrests, but family expectations, repeated noncriminal calls and limited ER/ stabilization capacity remain challenges.
Baltimore County crisis-services staff told the coordinating group that the county’s mobile crisis and co-responder model has helped divert most behavioral-health crisis calls away from emergency rooms and the criminal justice system, but limitations remain.
A crisis-services representative described a system that pairs a licensed clinician with a specially trained officer to respond to calls and to "complete an assessment of the individual" in the least-restrictive setting. The presenter said the program typically operates…
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