B-HEARD team members in Brooklyn act out a scenario in which they're called to a dispute. The New Jersey version of the program is different; a police officer and mental health professional are dispatched to certain mental health calls.B-HEARD team members in Brooklyn act out a scenario in which they're called to a dispute. The New Jersey version of the program is different; a police officer and mental health professional are dispatched to certain mental health calls.
Called ARRIVE Together, the program is limited, for now. It will run twice a week during the day in Elizabeth and adjacent Linden, with one officer assigned from each city’s police department and a mental health screener from Trinitas Regional Medical Center. Each officer in the program will wear a shirt that says “police” and arrive in an unmarked patrol car without flashing lights, according to Elizabeth Police Chief Giacomo Sacca.
Cities across the country are beginning to dispatch mental health professionals as first responders for behavioral health crisis. But compared to other cities, the New Jersey plan is more police-focused. In “ARRIVE” is an acronym for “Alternative Responses to Reduce Instances of Violence & Escalation.” The state Attorney General’s Office is paying the salaries of the mental health screeners. During the ARRIVE Together pilot program in Cumberland County, which has operated twice a week since December, state police and their mental health partners responded to 57 calls.
Mental Health Services are all about drugging patients for social control & nothing to do with medicine. Clip taken from a modern day Training Tutorial for Mental Health Nurses. Images from modern day quack treatments currently used by psychiatry including ECT, TMS & DBS.
Approachable, tone of voice and verbiage are key when dealing with someone whose emotions are high to calm them down. First, you never say to them that they are wrong even though they might be so that you get out unhurt/alive. Psychology works!