Behavioral Health Response

Under the city’s Office of Violence Prevention, the Community Centered Crisis & Response Team was launched last year and consists of behavioral health clinicians who are embedded into the 911 call center and sometimes tag along with police to assist with non-police interventions.

Clinical psychologist Marva Robinson shares tools and resources for people dealing with trauma from the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School shooting.

In July, Missouri officials debuted 988, an emergency mental health hotline that connects callers to dozens of organizations around the country based on the caller’s area code. The hotline’s overhaul means crisis response organizations need more workers and money to pay them. Advocates are concerned that the state has not committed to funding the hotline for the long term.

Behavioral health specialists have spent the past year serving riders on Metro Transit in the St. Louis region.

The two programs combined may have saved the city $2.6 million in police and EMS costs in the first eight months of operation, according to an analysis donated by Mastercard.

St. Louis still has significant work to do to make behavioral health care accessible for all its residents, according to a new report from the city’s…

On average, one person in Missouri dies by suicide every eight hours. According to the Missouri Department of Mental Health, suicide rates are rising…