Transforming 911 for public health, justice, and safety. An initiative of @UChiUrbanLabs and many collaborators.
Chicago, IL
Joined August 2021
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To #ReimagineCrisis, we also must transform our 911 system to collaborate with mental health crisis services. @T911HealthLab's Blueprint for Change offers important insights, like ensuring that people in crisis receive the right response at the right time. transform911.org/blueprint/
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NEW: A handful of cities–including Austin, Texas–are bringing mental health experts into 911 call centers so that dispatchers know which responder to send to provide “the right care, at the right place, at the right time.”
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Members of the Code for America Network are proud to have collaborated with @T911HealthLab on Transform911. Together, we're exploring how the nation's 911 system can better prioritize health and safety. Read the #BlueprintForChange now. @CivicTechnique okt.to/6lfdXO
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"Despite overwhelming use #nationwide... the 911 #system suffers from a lack of resources, faces a major staffing shortage, and is fundamentally misunderstood by most people," reports @audreyjourno @UChiUrbanLabs @UChicago
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@T911HealthLab, is an initiative that aims to modernize and strengthen the Nation’s 911 Call System– and they’ve just published a blueprint for how to do it. har.rs/3yoYiyo @UChiUrbanLabs
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At the #Transform911 event, historian Dr. Tara White of the Black Belt African American Genealogical and Historical Society is sharing about the history of the modern 911 system, which has never been neutral. @T911HealthLab
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“Give people the opportunity to not be just a victim or perpetrator but to be a helper.” @lj_punch @T911HealthLab
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“When you can’t trust it, a system can’t heal you” @lj_punch @T911HealthLab
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@T911HealthLab discussing a 911 Callers' Bill of Rights. Yes! People experiencing a crisis and their loved ones deserve real options they can trust in their moment of need. Panelists: @TransLifeline, @GraceNotGuilt, @FCC, @PADatlanta & Federal Bureau of Emergency Comms.
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Budge Currier of the National Association of State 911 Administrators dropping the knowledge on the practicalities of developing and sharing best-practices reflected in the @T911HealthLab blueprint.
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Portia Reddick White, VP of policy and Legislative Affairs, NAACP, speaking of the needs to reinvigorate 911.
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Washington State Rep. Tina Orwall is also a social worker and MH professional, working to support 911 and 988, especially telecommunication professionals in these systems. @T911HealthLab
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Tucson police chief Chad Kasmar has been a strong leader in the 911 space and in developing the @T911HealthLab blueprint.
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@mayorcantrell delivers her encouragement to the @T911HealthLab Blueprint Launch audience.
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Tucson Mayor Regina Romero, at @T911HealthLab Blueprint Launch, after graceful intro by New Orleans Parish Communications District Director Tyrell Morris.
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🎧NEW EP🎧
There are big hopes for the country's new mental health crisis line, 988.
But just weeks before it launches, there aren't enough people to answer calls.
How 988 is trying to overcome its workforce woes + what lessons it can learn from 911.
tradeoffs.org/2022/06/02/988…
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Want to help @UChiUrbanLabs to improve the nation's 911 system? Provide your input by May 1 on recommendations that aim to help the 911 system better prioritize health and safety: bit.ly/3xP8Zf4.
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Tyrell Morris and Lora Ueland make a critical point in @GOVERNING--We must invest in the human beings who comprise our emergency response communications workforce. || To Improve 911 Response, Invest in the People Who Make It Happen governing.com/work/to-improv…
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Our analysis of 15.6 million 911 calls found that 19% of calls involved behavioral health-related situations that could be handled by civilian crisis response programs.
Meet some of the people who are answering those calls: vera.org/the-people-respondi…
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Cities across the country have recognized the opportunity to improve their emergency response systems by linking emergency health response to public health workers instead of law enforcement and are taking it upon themselves to implement policy solutions:
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