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Advocates urge funding for peer respites, prevention and Elm City Compass crisis team
Summary
Recovery advocates, clinicians and local officials asked the committee to preserve and expand prevention programs, fund peer‑run respites (7 additional sites requested) and annualize $1.3M for Elm City Compass, a New Haven clinician‑led crisis response integrated with 911.
A coalition of recovery advocates, clinicians, municipal staff and young people urged the Appropriations Committee to preserve prevention funding, expand peer‑run respites and provide annualized support for the Elm City Compass crisis response.
Elm City Compass: Jacob Tevis, director of Elm City Compass, described a clinician‑led mobile crisis team integrated with 911 and first responders. The program has responded to nearly 4,000 mental‑health and substance‑use crises since 2022, Tevis said, and requested $1,300,000 in annualized funding to sustain staffing and rapid response.…
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