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Life-Saving Collaboration: Tulsa's Community Response Teams in Action
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In 2017, the City of Tulsa was receiving more than 1,300 mental health-related 911 calls annually. City services were strained, and emergency resources were stretched thin.
In response to this remarkable realization, a partnership between the Tulsa Police Department, the Tulsa Fire Department and FCS was formed. This partnership, known as the Community Response Team (CRT), serves in part to triage callers suffering from mental illness and place them with dedicated mental health professionals. Once callers are stabilized, CRT helps them obtain long-term stability by linking them to appropriate mental health services.
In this episode of OK State of Mind, we speak with three members of CRT to learn more about how this unique collaboration puts the right resources with the right people at the right time.
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