On Tuesday, January 24, 2023, BJA, SAMHSA, and the CSG Justice Center convened a National Forecasting Group Meeting on the shared the opportunity 988 presents for law enforcement. The meeting set out to achieve the following goals: Build a collective vision for 988 as a shared opportunity for behavioral health providers, law enforcement, and communities, including the opportunities presented by the new national dialing code to reduce avoidable contact with the criminal justice system and address disparities. Discuss activities to-date where law enforcement and other justice system partners are developing training, policies, and practices to operationalize 988 in their communities. Identify key junctures and considerations for engaging law enforcement in 988 implementation. Better understand law enforcement's needs to inform a roadmap that includes awareness raising, training, technical assistance, and policy work. The meeting brought together representatives from state, local, and regional jurisdictions: including Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program grantees and law enforcement-mental health learning sites; national law enforcement groups; national affiliate groups; federal leaders; and criminal justice and behavioral health partners. The meeting's discussions ranged from call triage for 911 and 988; working towards comprehensive crisis systems; equity, access, and trust in systems; and state innovations in 911 and 988 coordination. Local leaders shared promising strategies to bridge 911 and 988, including using federal funding as a cross-systems convening tool at local and regional levels, making the rest of the crisis continuum easy for law enforcement to use (i.e., designated law enforcement drop-off areas at crisis stabilization units), and building 988 awareness-raising into the department's commitment to diversion. Notably, participants spoke about the challenges of crisis response from not only their professional perspectives, but in their roles as parents, friends, and people with lived experience of behavioral health crisis.
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