The Metro Nashville Police Department’s Partners in Care program, which pairs officers with experts from the Mental Health Cooperative, goes county-wide today.
Nashville launches first non-police response program for mental health emergency calls
There are about 100 emergency calls each week in Davidson County where an ambulance responds unnecessarily. These are typically mental health calls in which people wind up in an emergency room, when they could have been connected with a counselor instead.
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