For the past year, Los Angeles has been testing a program that dispatches specially trained civilians who don’t carry guns in ...

Facing a funding shortfall from both state and city sources, Chicago Survivors has been slowly laying off employees and ...

A new 24/7 mobile crisis unit will be added in South Bend through a one million dollar grant.One South Bend organization will ...

Local mental health outreach has increased since April 2024, when River Edge Behavioral Health and the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, which runs the jail, “officially” started a program to encourage ...

Firefighters, police officers, and medical personnel joined together Thursday to prepare for future emergencies through a ...

Between fiscal years 2021 and 2024, crisis responders answered 98% of the more than 243,500 texts and the 391,000 chats. Concurrent interactions made up 8% of texts and 12% of chats over that time ...

Amarillo first responders will be able to cut response time significantly and be able to send the correct group to a crisis thanks to the first AMA Crisis Response Educational Summit held Monday ...

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline adds ASL services Since the Lifeline launched under its new three-digit number in July 2022, over 5.5 million contacts, including calls, texts and chats, were ...

WASHINGTON — Responders at the 24-hour veterans crisis line encounter abusive callers, incessant contacts from “disruptive” callers and pressure from their own managers to answer multiple ...

For first responders, volunteers, parents, and families, the emotional and mental strain of this disaster is becoming harder to bear. Many are working around the clock, helping others while ...