Mayor Bruce Harrell announced 18 new community crisis responders and 3 new supervisors will be hired for the CARE department.
SEATTLE — Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell announced Wednesday that the city’s Dual Dispatch program is expanding. This program launched last fall and allows civilian crisis responders to be dispatched to 911 calls.
The program and the Community Crisis Responders are under the city’s CARE Department, which also oversees the 911 Center. The CARE Department is referred to as the City’s third public safety department, along with police and fire.
Since the program launched in October, Seattle has had six behavioral health specialists working as
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