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Pilot Crisis Intervention Project in Houston

By Kristin Houle

According to the Houston Chronicle, ("Mental health experts, HPD team up to help patients," May 13, 2008), the Houston Police Department has developed a new pilot program aimed at defusing crisis situations involving people with mental illness.Here's the article:"Mental health professionals are riding alongside Houston police in a six-month pilot program designed to help defuse crisis situations involving unstable people, officials said.The program, which began this month, pairs an HPD officer with a licensed mental health case worker to form a Crisis Intervention Response Team, officials said.'The CIRT program is the only one of its kind in the state of Texas,' HPD Chief Harold Hurtt said Wednesday.HPD officials said two officers are assigned full-time to the program while a second pair are working on a part-time basis...continue to full post

Full post as published by Prevention Not Punishment on May 14, 2008 (boomark / email).