While emergency behavioral health services in the United States emphasize safety and risk management, the greatest advances to these systems have come from people and communities that value empathy, compassion and choice above all. From crisis intervention teams to crisis call centers and peer respite homes, this professional expression of love carries both risk and reward. Learn how love in the behavioral health crisis system brought us here, and how it is our best hope for the future of mental health, suicide prevention and community wellness.
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