Burnsville's Behavioral Health Unit, a team of police, fire, and an embedded social worker that handled 872 client contacts in 2025, is launching twice-monthly consultations with University of Minnesota psychiatrists and psychologists, a collaboration the city calls the first of its kind in Minnesota between a law enforcement crisis unit and an academic psychiatry department.

Minneapolis' Behavioral Crisis Response program, which has grown from a small pilot to nearly 70 full-time employees, has faced ongoing billing problems from its contractor Canopy Roots, which internal city emails show routinely submitted invoices missing documentation like itemized receipts and payroll records.

Naperville, Illinois has moved its Mobile Crisis Intervention Team, which pairs officers with clinicians on roughly 1,000 mental health calls a year, to a full-time model, with early responses including talking a family member in crisis into voluntarily going to the hospital, and Chief Jason Arres hoping the unit eventually handles up to 60% of such calls when it's on duty.

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In Jackson, Missouri, community members gathered at Wings Etc. for a cornhole tournament fundraiser benefiting the local Crisis Intervention Team, with proceeds and turnout boosted by seven new sponsor boards donated by BD Boards. After a rain delay, the round-robin tournament split into two brackets, with Tyler and Zach Shaw taking first in the A bracket and Joseph Hartlein and Zachary Flath winning the B bracket. Organizers thanked Wings Etc. for hosting and thanked the sponsors, players, and community members who turned out to support the cause.

Kimball, Nebraska's police department, along with Region 1 Behavioral Health, Lutheran Family Services, and the Nebraska Panhandle Counseling Center, is hosting a run of trainings in September: a five-day Crisis Intervention Team training Sept. 14-18, a 911 dispatcher-specific CIT session Sept. 21, and a Mental Health First Aid course Sept. 22. Chief James Lucero describes the CIT training as de-escalation instruction that pushes officers past their academy-trained instinct to treat every call as a threat, toward recognizing when someone simply needs help.

The trainings are open beyond law enforcement to dispatchers, fire, EMS, mental health professionals, and general community members, with Lucero noting that civilian attendees get a firsthand look at how fast and unpredictable these calls can be. Administrative Assistant Rachael Hudson frames the Mental Health First Aid course as giving community members practical tools to de-escalate a situation involving a struggling friend or family member before first responders arrive. Registration is capped at 30 people per session, with a QR code available on the department's Facebook page.