Barriers and facilitators to implementing an urban co-responding police-mental health team

• Main Authors: Katie Bailey (Author), Staci Rising Paquet (Author), Bradley R. Ray (Author), Eric Grommon (Author), Evan M. Lowder (Author), Emily Sightes (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background In an effort to reduce the increasing number of persons with mental illness (PMI) experiencing incarceration, co-responding police-mental health teams are being utilized as a way to divert PMI from the criminal justice system. Co-response teams are typically an inter-agency colla...