re: Mental health clinicians will start answering some 911 calls in Chicago — instead of cops

If a persons behavior is “out of control” to the point that police must be called to the scene…..

There is absolutely nothing that a mental health worker (social worker, counsellor, psych nurse, psychologist, or psychiatrist) can do before a police office secures the unstable person.

That is how it is done in the ER or on an inpatient medical unit or even an inpatient psychiatric unit.

The only person who will benefit from this is a “friend of a politician” who will be paid $250,000 to be the administrative overseer of the worthless program.

(Take the above information with a grain of salt. I only have 25 years of inpatient and outpatient experience as a psychiatrist)