CHICAGO (CBS) — A specialized team is hard at work in Chicago, dispatched to handle hundreds of mental health calls that had the potential to turn deadly, but you might not have heard of them.
The Crisis Assistance Response and Engagement (CARE) Program sends a mental health professional and an emergency medical technician – not police officers or firefighters – to respond to calls of mental health emergencies between 10:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. in select parts of the city.
A lot of the people who live in the communities the CARE team serves might not even know the program exists, but the data shows the demand is higher than ever…