Portland Police Bureau Behavioral Health Unit - Mental Health
From hmis
| Group | Mental Health |
| Category | Mental Health |
| Name | Portland Police Bureau Behavioral Health Unit |
| Provider | City of Portland Government |
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Description
The mission of the Behavioral Health Unit (BHU) is to coordinate the response of Law Enforcement and the Behavioral Health System to aid people in behavioral crisis resulting from known or suspected mental illness and or drug and alcohol addiction. The BHU is located within the Portland Police Bureau’s Central Precinct.
The Behavioral Health Response Teams (BHRT) pairs a patrol officer and a licensed mental health professional from Cascadia Project Respond. The Portland Police Bureau has three BHRT cars. The officers and mental health professionals work proactively with individuals who have a mental illness and are identified as having multiple or high risk contacts with police. The BHRT cars work to connect individuals to appropriate community resources in order to reduce their frequency of contact with police. Referrals to the BHRT cars are made through patrol officers.
The Service Coordination Team (SCT) is a program that offers treatment to the City of Portland’s most frequent drug and property crime offenders to address their drug and alcohol addictions, mental health treatment, and criminality. This program has successfully graduated over one hundred former drug offenders from its treatment program, reducing recidivism among program graduates by 91%.
Facilities
Portland Police Bureau Behavioral Health Unit
Contacts
Contact: Information Phone: (503) 823-0817