Cincinnati, OH Police Department partnered with UC Health to launch telehealth mobile crisis program
Cincinnati, OH telehealth mobile crisis response program
The Cincinnati Police Department has partnered with a mobile crisis team from UC Health to launch Ohio's first telehealth mobile crisis response program. The program will allow officers handling a mental health call to connect with social workers via telehealth. Police officers will be equipped with tablets they can use to contact the crisis team for support via video and social workers may be dispatched when necessary.
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Police officers to be equipped with tablets to contact crisis team for help
The new telehealth mobile crisis response program is funded by $638,610 in state and local grants.
UC Health and Cincinnati police launch Ohio's first telehealth mobile crisis response program
The UC Health mobile crisis team and Cincinnati police have launched Ohios first telehealth mobile crisis response program. The program will allow police officers dispatched to assist when someone is experiencing a mental health crisis to phone the crisis team to ask for help,
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