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DMH proposes to bring Team 2 training in-house, highlights statewide dispatch tech and 988 coordination
Summary
The Department of Mental Health told the House Healthcare committee it plans to move aspects of its crisis-response training (Team 2) in‑house, promote scenario-based cross-training for first responders, and expand use of Behavioral Health Link to connect 988, mobile crisis teams and designated agencies. Committee members pressed on costs, transitions and potential impacts on local providers.
The Department of Mental Health (DMH) told the House Healthcare committee Feb. 17 that it intends to bring some crisis‑training work that has been run under a separate “team 2” program into the agency’s own operations while adapting and expanding the curriculum to meet statewide needs.
“the Department of Mental Health has, prioritized, supporting our community, as as best we can, making sure that we have, someone to call, someone to respond and somewhere to go,” Emily Hawes, commissioner for the Department of Mental Health, said in her opening remarks. Hawes and Jeremy Terry, DMH’s crisis director, told members the in‑house approach would combine factual instruction with scenario‑based de‑escalation exercises and cross‑discipline role‑playing for police, EMS, fire and mental‑health clinicians.
Terry described the role DMH…
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