Galveston Launches Mental Health Crisis Response Teams

Galveston city, Texas and county officials, in partnership with the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and other Galveston foundations launched a new program that improves 9-1-1 mental health emergency call responses. Plans for the program were first publicly announced in June 2022.

Roundtable participants included Fire Chief Charles Olsen, Police Chief Doug Balli, County Commissioner Stephen D. Holmes, Meadows Institute Senior Director of Health and Public Safety Max Geron, Gulf Coast Center CEO Felicia Jeffery, The Pew Charitable Trusts Project Director Julie Wertheimer, and moderated by Meadows Institute Senior . . .