{"id":13194,"date":"2022-05-11T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=13194"},"modified":"2022-05-16T16:26:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T20:26:58","slug":"sen-ossoff-working-to-strengthen-crime-prevention-mental-health-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-working-to-strengthen-crime-prevention-mental-health-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Working to Strengthen Crime Prevention &amp; Mental Health in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is working to strengthen crime prevention and mental health in Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff is launching a push to pass the bipartisan&nbsp;<em>Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Reauthorization Act of 2022<\/em>, legislation he co-sponsored to improve public safety and help law enforcement respond to calls involving mental health emergencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m focused on the safety of Georgia communities every day,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill would strengthen programs and initiatives that help train law enforcement officials on better responding to individuals suffering from mental health or substance abuse crises.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill would also allow local law enforcement agencies to support enhancements to mental health and substance abuse services, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Integrating the new 988 mental health crisis line into emergency call centers<\/li><li>Deploying co-responder teams of mental health professionals with 24\/7, 365 response capability<\/li><li>Improving access to case management services and suicide prevention programs<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is working to strengthen crime prevention and mental health in Georgia. Sen. Ossoff is launching a push to pass the bipartisan&nbsp;Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Reauthorization Act of 2022, legislation he co-sponsored to improve public safety and help law enforcement respond to calls involving mental health emergencies. \u201cI\u2019m focused [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13194","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/13194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/13194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13196,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/13194\/revisions\/13196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}