The Evans School Student Consulting Lab (SCL) pairs MPA students and faculty advisors with public, private, and nonprofit partners to co-create solutions to policy and organization problems. A recent “Seattle Times” article cited research done by Brad Blackburn, Hope Kalegi, and Mahdya Aldahnim – all MPA ’23 – as part of their project “Landscape of Behavioral Health Crisis Interventions for U.S. Campus Populations.”
“Programs that send mental health professionals to respond to crises as a supplement to or replacement for police officers have grown in recent years. Seattle is planning to expand its pilot program that sends crisis responders to some 911 calls. King County recently expanded its program that sends mobile crisis teams, dispatched by 988 calls, to mental health emergencies around the county.
Applying the idea to college campuses is newer. A 2023 report from students at UW’s Evans School of Public Policy and Governance identified similar crisis response programs at eight universities around the country; the oldest program, at Johns Hopkins University, launched in August 2021.”
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