The potential of microbusinesses, financing early childhood teachers, and building a sustainable behavioral health crisis continuum.
Building a sustainable behavioral health crisis continuum In the United States, law enforcement frequently responds to behavioral health crises, but these personnel are often poorly prepared to handle such incidents. People with serious mental illnesses also remain overrepresented in the nation’s jails and prisons. Richard Frank and Vikki Wachino provide an overview of new federal policies that seek to change the status quo. Read more | Help support Brookings with a donation Brookings is committed to making its high-quality, independent policy research free to the public. Please consider making a contribution today to our Annual Fund to support our experts' work. | The conclusions and recommendations of any Brookings publication are solely those of its author(s), and do not reflect the views of the Institution, its management, or its other scholars. | |