A new nonprofit is hoping to continue the legacy of mobile crisis intervention in Eugene. It’s called Willamette Valley Crisis Care (WVCC), also described as CAHOOTS 2.0.
“We want to get back out there,” Michelle Perin, former CAHOOTS worker and cofounder of WVCC, told The Register-Guard.
Mobile crisis refers to an alternate response model where health professionals are deployed to emergencies instead of, or in conjunction with, law enforcement. Founded in 1989, White Bird Clinic’s CAHOOTS program has received national recognition as a pioneer of this model…