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Council committee hears Partners in Care data, program asks funding to expand weekend coverage
Summary
Mental Health Cooperative and Metro Police presented Partners in Care results to the Public Health & Safety Committee, reporting 3,884 mental-health responses in 2025, high diversion rates from emergency rooms and requests for funding to add weekend coverage and a permanent training coordinator.
Michael Randolph, director of co-response services at the Mental Health Cooperative, told the Metropolitan Council Public Health & Safety Committee that Partners in Care — a program embedding master's-level clinicians with patrol officers — handled 3,884 mental-health calls in 2025 and served about 3,000 unique individuals.
"Seventy-seven percent of the people we've seen in Partners in Care in 2025 had not been seen by the mental health crisis system before in Davidson County," Randolph said, summarizing the program's reach. He said roughly 50 percent of crisis calls can be resolved at the scene, about 70 percent are diverted from emergency rooms, and roughly 10 percent result in direct transport to psychiatric treatment or the crisis treatment facility.
Captain Anthony Brooks of the Metro Nashville Police Department’s Office of Alternative Policing Strategies…
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