Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When law enforcement officers respond to calls, they can encounter people who are experiencing a mental health crisis or have an ...

The Prescott Valley Police Department (PVPD) has successfully expanded its Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) and mental health ...

Police and mental health leaders say calls have surged in the Susquehanna Valley. Local co-responder teams have answered ...

A weeklong Crisis Intervention Team course in Elkhart County trained 26 first responders in de-escalation, suicide prevention and responding to behavioral health emergencies ...

Wheeling Police Chief Shawn Schwertfeger, center, and Lata Menon, CEO of First Choice Services, left, talked to a group of local mental health officials, local law enforcement and others at the Wood ...

For this segment of my Pride in Mental Health Series, I talk with David Bond, Vice President of Programs at The Trevor Project, (the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and ...

Training hasn’t stopped deadly outcomes on some NYC 911 mental‑health calls. New reporting lays out which cases and what ...

Officers restrained a 10-year-old boy with autism face-down at school drop-off, placing a knee on the boy’s neck and fracturing his arm. The post Advocates sue Worcester over response to mental health ...

Police in Las Vegas have released more information about Shane Tamura, the 27-year-old man who, last week, drove to New York and killed four people then himself. Documents confirm he was twice taken ...

A federal civil rights lawsuit alleges that Richmond police officers used "needless" deadly force against Jose De Jesus Mendez-Rios, an unarmed 51-year-old man experiencing a mental health crisis, and ...

The man who killed four people in New York City had a history of mental health issues, including two commitments to treatment initiated by Las Vegas police. But legally, he was still allowed to buy ...