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The Alameda CARE Team Launches Before The Winter Holidays

The CARE Team will triage and assess clients in order to assist them with navigating the best path forward in obtaining needed services.

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Press release from the City of Alameda:

December 06, 2021

  • If you are experiencing an emergency, always call 911.
  • If you are in crisis or see someone who may be in crisis, call 911 or call 510-337-8340 and ask for the CARE Team to respond.

    • When the CARE Team is dispatched, first responders will arrive in a low-profile program-branded vehicle outfitted for this work. The CARE Team will triage and assess clients in order to assist them with navigating the best path forward in obtaining needed services.

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    Developing options to shift certain responsibility for managing mental health crises from the Police Department to non-police agencies is a recommendation of the community-led committees on police reform and racial equity. At its March 16, 2021 meeting, the Alameda City Council unanimously approved moving forward with this program and a series of recommendations. The Alameda CARE Team is also supported by Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services and the Alameda County Emergency Medical Services Agency.

    Photographs by Maurice Ramirez, Richard Bangert and Kirby Fong.

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