Crisis response team heads to St. George Apartments, North District 

The Clinician-Led Community Response (CLCR) team will expand to provide service to the St. George Apartments and IMPD’s North District.& A partnership between the City of Indianapolis Office of Public Health and Safety and Stepping Stones Therapy Center, the CLCR has received 925 calls since Jan. 1, 2024. The CLCR has assisted nearly 650 individuals, and the new expansion will mean access to around 192,000 additional residents.& The community response team will be expanding to the St. George Apartments and IMPD’s north district. (Photo via/Facebook) “Thanks to the Clinician-Led Community Response team, hundreds of our residents in IMPD’s Downtown and East districts are getting the care they need when experiencing a behavioral health emergency,” Mayor Joe Hogsett said. “By expanding these services to North District, the CLCR team can extend the reach of their compassionate work. They are not only helping individuals in crisis, but they are also helping keep neighbors safe by ensuring law enforcement can focus on public safety issues while trained clinicians attend to calls related to mental health crises.” & The program was launched in IMPD’s Downtown District on July 1, 2023, to address mental health and substance use disorders. CLCR clinicians, rather than police, are...