Today, the program, called CAHOOTS, has three vans, more than double the number of staffers and the attention of a country in crisis.
It stands for Crisis Assistance Helping Out on the Streets and cheekily refers to the relationship between the community health center that started it and the Eugene Police Department. The program started small, with a van Zeiss called a "junker," some passionate paraprofessionals and just enough funding to staff CAHOOTS 40 hours a week.
And for the most part, both groups have: Eugene Police Chief Chris Skinner called theirs a "symbiotic relationship" that better serves some residents of Eugene. Most of CAHOOTS' clients are homeless, and just under a third of them have severe mental illnesses. It's a weight off the shoulders of police, Skinner said.
Their approach is different, too. They're taught in training to abandon the "pseudo-professional" affect that staffers inadvertently take on in talks with clients. And aside from an extensive background in medical care or mental health, all CAHOOTS employees are judged by their "lived experiences," Brubaker said -- people who've dealt with many of the situations CAHOOTS clients find themselves in are better able to empathize and serve those people, he said.
Yeah not sure bout your place, but here in Regina, it’s a meth addict, not any meth either, the Nazi Chemistry meth. Black lives matter is a communist political movement, supported by commie JT Castro. Defund media frauds like CTV
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Did you guys actually read what you published? You just wrote we should send out medical people to the calls. THIS IS WHAT WE DO NOW ITS CALLED PARAMEDICS IN AN AMBULANCE. 😂😂😂 Get a hold of yourself CTV that Trudeau money is going to your heads
CTV IS HATE MEDIA
Why did I have to read nearly to the last paragraph to find out they’ve never worked without the help of the police? In other words a full police staff and a army of shrinks got it!
Insane
Journalism is dead.
In our day they sent out a wagon and picked them up and took them to a building where they stayed until they got well if they did? Not allowed them to walk the streets like zombies committing crimes and blaming illnesses, we called them the nut house not sure what you call it now
Defund the cheque’s for the refugees and fund the cheque’s for the retired 👍👍👍👀👀
They failed miserably most of the wackos are from Oregon Travelling to make problems; getting arrested now. Preach to the mayors governors of left wing liberal states. Get those damn drug dealers/manufacturers countries who are murderers of kids etc.🙏
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A town in Oregon is exactly the same as the south side of Chicago.
Can we replace our media with competent reporters?
Portland is having riots every night for the past month....
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