Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office Creates Behavioral Health Crisis Response Team

The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office has partnered with the Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division (BHD) to create a county Crisis Assessment and Response Team (CART). BHD is allocating $500,000 of its funding reserves for the effort. The CART pairs BHD mental health clinical professionals with law enforcement officers to respond to situations when an individual calls 9-1-1 and asks for mental health services or identifies that mental health symptoms may be present. The goal of the CART is to prevent unneeded emergency detentions.

BHD will support the initial program funding with three MCSO deputies and two . . .