A Denver city councilmember who supports defunding police weighs new success of replacing cops with mental health teams. Six months in, the team has responded to almost 750 calls, without one arrest.

THRIVE is taxpayer-funded through nonprofit Caring for Denver. Denver Health says it has seen a significant decrease in ...

Another U.S. city is reporting early success with a program that replaces ... Carleigh Sailon, a social worker with the Mental Health Center of Denver who works out of the STAR van, said she ...

A program that replaces police officers with health care workers on mental health and substance abuse calls in Denver, Colorado, is showing signs of success, according to a six-month progress report.

Denver's THRIVE program, which aims to help those experiencing homelessness and addiction, has also helped to decrease jail bookings. Other news from around the nation comes from North Carolina, ...

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DENVER — The Denver Police Department said it's seeing success by pairing behavioral ... or arrest 286 people were placed on emergency mental health hold 71 people were connected to housing ...

While the audit is generally positive, it notes that the Denver Sheriff Department "needs to develop a strategy and needs to define what success looks like for its mental health programs." ...

A rotation of a few mental health professionals began working in shifts out of a single van, responding to behavioral health incidents in Denver ... that STAR’s success from the beginning ...

For example, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston declared ... What I want to see from this program is measurable success in treating mental health and addiction issues, and I hope that is what Johnston ...