Baltimore Is Rethinking What It Means To Call 911 — And Who Responds
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Baltimore's mobile crisis teams, overseen by Behavioral Health System Baltimore, are diverting mental health emergency calls from police to clinicians and peer counselors, with the city now expanding the program using roughly $400 million from opioid settlement funds to serve a broader population beyond acute crisis intervention.
The expansion is underway; full citywide scale and long-term outcomes remain to be demonstrated.
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