Insights & News
Health Insights are designed to deepen our Coalition’s understanding of specific issues that affect our community’s health, and engage our Coalition as participants, partners, and strategists in solutions. All Health Insights address one or more of the social determinants that affect the health of people in our Okanogan County community and are written by members of our community health network.
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Stepping up Crisis Response Systems
Over 50% of calls to 911 in Okanogan County are non-criminal. These calls are often connected to bigger community health issues like substance use, homelessness, and mental health, and the resources our community members in crisis need often expand beyond law enforcement.
Responding to the call for solutions to this growing challenge, partners across the county are coming together and working toward innovative crisis programs, new collaborations, and better crisis systems.
Over 50% of calls to 911 in Okanogan County are non-criminal. These calls are often connected to bigger community health issues like substance use, homelessness, and mental health, and the resources our community members in crisis need often expand beyond law enforcement.
This longstanding challenge in our county has become even more pressing this past year. Responding to the call for solutions to this growing challenge, partners across the county, from law enforcement and mental health to addiction services and social work, are coming together and working toward innovative crisis programs, new collaborations, and better crisis systems.
On Dec. 8th, community partners spoke to the challenges in our crisis response systems, the way partners are stepping up, and how your organization can both utilize new resources on the table and contribute to future solutions.
Watch the video below to hear about new 24/7 recovery programming, a new mobile mental health crisis team, Omak PD's new social worker, the 'Crisis Response Collaborative' and more.
