Mental health calls on the rise

Mental health calls to 911 are rising.

SO FAR, AVKARE SAYS IT HAS NOTRECEIVED ANY REPORTS OF ADVERSEEVENTS RELATED TO THIS RECALL.DISPATCH CENTERS SAY THEY’RESEEING A SPIKE IN THE NUMBER OF9-1-1 CALLS RELATED TO MENTALHEALTH THIS YEAR.THIS AS MANY PEOPLE STRUGGLEWITH LONELINESS.MANY FIRE FIGHTERS SAYINGTHEY’RE FINDING THEMSELVES INDUAL ROLES...AS FIRST RESPONDERSAND PATIENT ADVOCATES.

THEY SAYTHAT INCREASE IN CALLS IMPACTS*THEIR MENTAL HEALTH, TOO."It is a different mentalcheck-in point.

Like I said,after every call, we kind ofdebrief, like ’Ok everyone’sgood with how that went?

In theback of our mind we’re alwaysworried about how that’s goingto affect our families when wego home."AS FIRST