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Mental health professionals will team with law enforcement in San Mateo County’s four largest cities as part of a pilot program aimed at de-escalating 9-1-1 calls and providing appropriate, compassionate care for non-violent individuals.
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San Mateo County is teaming up with four municipal police departments on a new program that aims to divert emergencies involving mental health crises to clinicians. The pilot is not yet available on the Coastside.
Under the pilot, clinicians will respond to 911 calls alongside with law enforcement. Nationwide, police have come under renewed scrutiny in recent years for excessive use of force.
The partnership between the San Mateo County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services office and four cities â San Mateo, South San Francisco, Daly City and Redwood City â mirrors reform taking place elsewhere in the country largely following calls by the Black Lives Matter movement. It also responds to local concerns over law enforcement failing to deescalate incidents involving people experiencing a mental health crisis that sometimes had fatal consequences.
The goal of the immediate response will be to de-escalate the crisis and to support the safety of the individual in crisis, those around the individual, and all responding to the incident, Scott Gilman, director of County Health s Behavioral Health and Recovery Services, said in a statement.
Gilman estimates that about half of individuals at county jails have an underlying mental health or behavioral condition. The National Alliance on Mental Health says that people in a mental health crisis are more likely to encounter police than get medical help.
The program is aimed to provide services in the early stages of a crisis, from that first interaction with 911, Gilman said during the supervisors board meeting.