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Momentum For Crisis Stabilization Centers Around The Country.

Nearly all of Minnesota’s 87 counties now direct mental health crisis calls to trained mental health professionals, rather than law enforcement.

Matching the right expertise to the right issue provides better care to people in crisis and enhances public safety. As The Badger reports, “The rise and spread of [mobile crisis response teams] have the benefit of being both pro-police, by relieving stretched law enforcement agencies of a significant number of calls, many of them needing experts, and also being pro-patient, in which folks with mental health issues can have root causes treated rather than their symptoms.”