INDIANAPOLIS — There is now around-the-clock help when it comes to mental health crises in Indianapolis.
The Clinician Led Community Response team is now going 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The team was launched back in July to help connect Hoosiers to mental health help, without any police officers responding.
Since the launch, the city says the team has responded to over 130 calls across the metro area. The team now has 24 licensed clinicians on board working 12-hour shifts around the clock.
The team says having the 24-hour response will help run overnight calls they usually miss.
"Urgencies don't wait for nine to five, and a lot of times when other agencies may be closed, because that's the way life is structured, you know a nine to five work existence, but when a person needs help, they need help, and it's not going to wait until the morning," licensed clinician Teena Turner said.
"There have been several calls where just reconnecting lost family members that are elderly capacity, reconnecting them with their families," peer specialist Michael Lumpkin said. "Just to see some of those great resolutions that avoid incarceration, hospitalization any further."
City leaders said they're hoping to expand the response team to the east district in the near future.
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