Program Basics
How do community responders differ from traditional police officers?
They are unarmed and can't arrest anyone or enforce any laws
This program operates in Albuquerque, NM
What is ACS Behavorial Health and Community Responders?
This call type often involves two individuals in a verbal dispute without weapons.
What is Disturbance in Progress?
The CR Team is currently under contract with a local organization in this city and county?
What is Knoxville and Knox County?
Suspicious Person is call typed that Dayton's MRU responded to in 2024
False
Name two kinds of professionals that typically make up a community responder team.
What are trained civilians? social workers? clinicians? paramedics/emt? peer specialist?
Which North Carolina city launched a community responder program called HEART?
What is Durham HEART?
Calls about a person sleeping on a bench or loitering outside a business often fall under this call type.
The CR team collaborated with this fellow organization to write The Community Responder Model White Paper
What is the Center for American Progress?
Some cities operate both co-responder and community responder programs.
True
What distinguishes community response from co-response?
Community response is unarmed and independent from police
What is the name of Evanston's Community Responder Program?
What is Crisis Alternative Response Evanston?
Name a disqualifying factor that would prevent a community responder from being dispatched?
What is medical emergency? What are weapons or violence?
This report discusses the liability related to dispatching unarmed community responders
What is LEAP's Liability Report?
In New Orleans, MCIU responders reported feeling safe on over 99% of calls
True
This model relies on the same 911 call-taker and dispatcher roles as police. When a 911 call-taker identifies a call as appropriate for community responders (no violence or weapons), they make a note in the call file for the police dispatcher. The police dispatcher then dispatches a community responder team to the call as if the team were another police unit.
What is 911 Call Center Led-Dispatch?
In which city did the CAHOOTS program originate?
Eugene, OR
This call type typically involves a request for assistance in retrieving belongings from a shared residence during a conflict.
What is Domestic Standby? Standby Request? Standby Request to Assist Public?
Which organization did LEAP partner with for Knoxville and Knox County to complete the budget section for the final report?
A. Local Progress
B. Council State Governments
C. Center for American Progress
What is CSG?
Community responder teams are always made up of licensed therapists.
False
True or False: All community responder programs are run by city government departments.
False, some programs are operated by local non-profit organizations
What is the name of Cincinnati's program that sends mental health professionals to calls?
What is Alternative Response to Crisis (ARC) Response Team?
This is an Evanston specific call type that relates to fall, leaves, and neighbor complaints
What is Leaf Blower Violation?
This foundation provided grant funding for LEAP's community responder work
What is Joyce Foundation? What is Schusterman?
Eugene CAHOOTS was established in 1988