CHICAGO (WLS) -- Community Response Teams around the city popped up once COVID-19 started affecting Chicagoans. Many of them with the same goal, to help neighbors in need. "We take requests, so our ...

ANTIOCH, Calif. (KGO) -- Antioch's Community Response Team has now been around for one year. In that first year, Mayor Lamar Hernandez-Thorpe says they have been fairly busy. "They average about 500 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DOUGLAS COUNTY (KDVR) — Douglas County Deputy Sheriff Zach Zepeski calls his job the best job he has ever worked. He’s with the ...

Members of the UC Santa Cruz community have been encouraged for several years to report hurtful acts expressing hostility or bias on the basis of race, sexual orientation, gender, disability, place of ...

Across the Bay Area, communities are looking for ways to deal with mental health crises without involving police. Antioch created it's own private crisis response team, and after 12 months the city's ...

NEW YORK — An NYPD unit initially tasked with tackling quality-of-life complaints across the city has exploded in size but remains a shadow group within the department without any publicly defined ...

ARE DEALING WITH A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS. IN THE CITY OF STOCKTON. ONE ORGANIZATION MAMBA COMMUNITY RESPONSE. HOW CAN I DIRECT? YOUR CALL IS CONSTANTLY ON STANDBY, READY TO MOBILIZE WHEN ANYONE HAS A ...

Police were summoned to an ice cream parlor’s parking lot this week on a mental health call involving a 30-year-old woman who was walking around barefoot.