Hannah Stern assists in improving crisis response for people with behavioral health needs, housing insecurity, and social disturbances. Prior to joining the CSG Justice Center, she was a policy associate at the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island, where she was a lobbyist and provided advocacy and technical support on legislation addressing civil liberties concerns, including an expansive number of criminal justice reform issues. Hannah has a BFA in modern literary studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an MSL from Roger Williams University School of Law, where she was a community leader fellow.
This May, the state of Washington passed legislation supporting the expansion of alternative response teams (sometimes called community…
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