Lifeline: The 988 Podcast
Learn all about 988, the new national suicide and crisis lifeline launched by the U.S. government in July, 2022, in this nine-part limited series podcast. Join John Snook, JD, Chief Policy Officer at the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, and Shannon Scully, Senior Advisor for Justice and Crisis Response Policy at NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, as they discuss 988 with podcast host Ron LeGrand, Policy Director at the National Criminal Justice Association.
Lifeline: The 988 Podcast
Episode 4 -- The Police and 988
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Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
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Season 1
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Too often, law enforcement officers are forced to serve as mental health first responders – even as evidence tells us that many crisis calls do not require law enforcement intervention. How does 988 address this concern? What does an alternative response system look like? Our hosts discuss those issues and the three pillars of the crisis continuum of care: 1) Someone to talk to, 2) someone to respond, and 3) somewhere to go.