Advocates say Honolulu's CORE is offtrack
Plus - updates from NYC, Baltimore, Anchorage, Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin, Maine & Oregon
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AOT, SI in call takers, family experience, & CCBHC - all evaluated
Plus - recordings of the 2026 AMSA virtual conference on peers in the workforce
Ithaca Sets New ROOTS
Plus - Skokie hooks up 911/988, Fed $$ for CIRCLES in LA, and what's the Austin City Council doing?
Chestnut picks up big contract for Southern Illinois
Plus - discount code for CrisisCon for AMSA members
The Promise and Peril of Crisis Response
Plus - headlines from Maryland, Kansas, and Massachusetts
Caring for the Criminalized
Plus - mobile program cut in Berkeley, Massey work to continue, huzzah for Evanston CARE
Mapping Alternative Response
Plus - research & commentary from The Hill, Steinberg Institute, RTI, BHL Link, Ohio State, & NYU Silver School
$1 Billion In Grants Offered By The US DOJ
With strings attached to help deport your friends, family, and neighbors.
A Plan for Alternative Response in DC from CICS
Plus - Selina Popovich Evans LCSW from Benchmark Human Services’ in including I/DD in mobile services.
New SAMHSA state NOFO, and a metrics toolkit from Harvard GPL
Plus - meet Dr. Liza Chowdhury of Reimagine Justice and Paterson Healing Collective
Sacramento: 37% of EMS calls were non-emergencies
Plus headlines from Atlanta, New York City, Chicago, Salem, Birmingham and Hagåtña.
IT HAPPENED IN CHICAGO
400+ mobile crisis practitioners, alternative responders, policy wonks, funders, vendors, and researchers mixed it up for two days.
Ten New States Start CBHCC Demo Program
See you in Chicago friends.
News from Minnesota, Greensboro, Peoria, Austin, Sacramento
AND - upcoming events in Cambridge & Chicago
Register to watch BEYOND THE CALL on May 28
Plus headlines from Sacramento, Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Santa Fe, Durham, St Louis, Atlanta, Hartford,
New Research from N. Carolina
Plus Dr. Ayesha arrives to the rescue, & AMSA Talks with Christi Sherrill of Oklahoma's Mindful First Responders Program
We Ask Police To Do Too Much. There’s A Better Way
Author Mariela Ruiz-Angel is Director of Alternative Response Initiatives at Georgetown University’s Center for Innovations in Community Safety.
One In Four Californians Have Heard Of 988
Plus highlights from Columbus, Urbana, Atlanta, New York City
Budget Meltdown in California Hurts Mobile Crisis
Plus new headlines. research, commentary, and legislative endorsement
Call Volume & Call Processing: Albuquerque 911 analysis
Welcome new AMSA members Benchmark Human Services, American Association of Suicidology, and Bay Area Community Services
Register for Empowered Leadership Coaching Program
Plus new headlines. research, commentary, and legislative endorsement for Minnesota