CAHOOTS (crisis response)
CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets) is a mental-health-crisis intervention program in Eugene, Oregon, which has handled some lower-risk emergency calls involving mental illness since 1989. In most American cities, police respond to such calls, and at least 25% of people killed in police encounters had been suffering from serious mental illness.
| Formation | 1989 |
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Other cities in the US and other countries have investigated or implemented the concept. In 2015 Stockholm a similar concept was implemented and considered a success. After the George Floyd protests in 2020, several hundred cities in the US interested in implementing similar programs requested information from CAHOOTS.
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