Salem pauses plans on mental health response unit modeled after CAHOOTS in Eugene

After a year of discussing plans for a mobile mental health response unit, Salem is pumping the breaks on their version of Eugene's CAHOOTS program. City council members are now torn on how to move forward. Vanessa Nordyke said she's continuing to work with Marion County to advocate for this kind of program, which allows people to call 911 for specific mental health cases. "This is a person who may be expressing suicidal thoughts.

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New UTEP partnership aims to improve mental health access in rural Texas counties

A new partnership aims to develop a behavioral health specialists' workforce to improve access to mental health services in five southwest Texas rural counties. With support from a $1. 9 million grant awarded by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Health Services Resources Administration, UTEP, and Sul Ross will train students to provide culturally competent mental health care to residents of Presidio, Brewster, Culberson, Hudspeth, and Jeff Davis counties.

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Minnesota legislators call for examination of court-mandated mental health exams after TV report

Minnesota legislators are calling for an investigation after a Twin Cities TV station's report about a man who did not receive court-mandated mental health treatment who later fatally shot a man on a bus in downtown Minneapolis. In February 2020, Malcolm James Lessley, then 26, shot two people on a Metro Transit bus near Parking Ramp A in the 100 block of N. 9th Street, killing Tommie McCoy, ...

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