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HealthConnections - Responding to Mental Health Crises
The City of Knoxville and Knox County recently commissioned a task force to look at alternate responses to people experiencing a non-violent mental health crisis. Rather than using police officers who are generally untrained in mental health problems and already overburdened, local advocates are promoting a program that pairs unarmed crisis workers and health care practitioners to avoid inadvertently escalating the problem and get people the help they need. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Eboni Winford of Cherokee Health Systems about the issues that led to the task force's creation.
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