That’s actually really cool. At least in the US, there’s few places that have public ambulance services, which you need because there are no private crisis response units in the country. There’s not even a framework to certify them. So what winds up happening is that you call an ambulance, the paramedics arrive and are neither trained nor equipped to handle a serious mental health crisis, they call the police and then we’re back to square one.
But I’m glad you live somewhere that both has crisis response units and funds them enough that they are actually capable of doing anything.
So… what are people supposed to do instead?
Where I live you call an ambulance.
That’s actually really cool. At least in the US, there’s few places that have public ambulance services, which you need because there are no private crisis response units in the country. There’s not even a framework to certify them. So what winds up happening is that you call an ambulance, the paramedics arrive and are neither trained nor equipped to handle a serious mental health crisis, they call the police and then we’re back to square one.
But I’m glad you live somewhere that both has crisis response units and funds them enough that they are actually capable of doing anything.
How do you specifically call for an ambulance and not cops? How do you stop the 911 dispatcher from sending cops?
The $15,000 weewooo taxi? No thanks, I’ll walk.
Anything else.
Sure but what specifically?
Something that won’t end with your loved ones being shot to death.
How unhelpfully vague.
People should give MORE Tax Dollars to the Police so they can continue Killing us INSTEAD of using that money to fund Mental Health Crisis Teams!