Connections Health Solutions is a crisis response center that immediately treats people struggling with mental health and substance abuse--working with the police to offer an alternative to jail time.
Studies show people experiencing these problems often end up incarcerated—instead of receiving care to treat the underlying issues.
"If you make it easy for law enforcement to do the right thing, use their training that they've received on how to recognize mental illness, the last piece of that is that you have to make it really easy for them to drop people off for care,"says Balfour.
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