Acknowledgements
Writing
- Rachel Bromberg, Reach Out Response Network
- Clifford Courvoisier,
- Elizabeth Fleming, CSG Justice Center
- Jasmine Graves, Radical Imagination Strategies
- Amos Irwin, Law Enforcement Action Partnership
- Melissa McKee, CSG Justice Center
- Betsy Pearl, Center for American Progress
- Ashtan Towles, CSG Justice Center
- Amelia Vorpahl, CSG Justice Center
- Rosemary White Shield, CSG Justice Center
Research
- Rachel Bromberg, Reach Out Response Network
- Clifford Courvoisier, Yale Law School
- Jasmine Graves, Radical Imagination Strategies
- Amos Irwin, Law Enforcement Action Partnership
- Betsy Pearl, Center for American Progress
- Aasha Shaik, Yale Law School
- Ashtan Towles, CSG Justice Center
- Alejandra Uría, Yale Law School
- Sarah Wurzburg, CSG Justice Center
Advising
- Dr. Ayesha Delany-Brumsey, CSG Justice Center
- Jasmine Graves, Radical Imagination Strategies
- Dionna King, Vital Strategies
- Amelia Vorpahl, CSG Justice Center
- Sarah Wurzburg, CSG Justice Center
Project Manager
- Amelia Vorpahl, CSG Justice Center
Editing
- Darby Baham, CSG Justice Center
- Dr. Dion Clark, CSG Justice Center
- Emily Morgan, CSG Justice Center
Design
- Michael Bierman
Web Development
- eleventy marketing group
Public Affairs
- Elizabeth Garcia, CSG Justice Center
- Aisha Jamil, CSG Justice Center
- Ruvi Lopez, CSG Justice Center
- Shannon Moriarty, CSG Justice Center
This work could not have been completed without the support and partnership of various organizations, including: the Albuquerque Community Safety Department, Atlanta Policing Alternatives & Diversion Initiative, Austin Emergency Mobile Crisis Outreach Team, Baltimore Crisis Response, Inc., Center for American Progress, Denver Supported Team Assisted Response, Law Enforcement Action Partnership, New York Behavioral Health Emergency Assistance Response Division, Newark Community Street Team, Olympia Crisis Response Unit, Reach Out Response Network, Rochester Person in Crisis Team, Portland Street Response, Salvation and Social Justice, San Francisco Street Crisis Response Team, White Bird Clinic, and Yale Law School.
About Vital Strategies
The Expanding First Response toolkit was funded by Vital Strategies. Vital Strategies is a global health organization that believes every person should be protected by a strong public health system. Vital Strategies is helping a number of high-burden states in the U.S. strengthen and scale up evidence-based, data-driven interventions to reduce risks of overdose and save lives.
About Alkermes Inspiration Grants
Through Alkermes Inspire Grants, organizations that serve people living with addiction, mental illness, or cancer are supported, with priority given to underrepresented or historically under-resourced communities.
About The Joyce Foundation
The Joyce Foundation works to advance racial equity and economic mobility by investing in public policies and strategies. The foundation works to advance racial equity and economic mobility for the next generation through evidence-informed policies and strategies.
About Pew Charitable Trust
Pew Charitable Trust is committed to enhancing public policy by conducting rigorous analysis, bringing diverse interests together, and ensuring that tangible results are achieved. The organization works to inspires public awareness of important issues and trends shaping our world by providing useful data.
About Stand Together Trust
Stand Together Trust helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems–driving solutions on education, economic opportunity, health care, bridging partisan divides, and other issues. Stand Together Trust believes that an effective criminal justice system protects people and preserves public safety, respects human dignity, restores victims and removes barriers for people with criminal records.
About Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is committed to creating opportunities that improve health equity for everyone and building a culture of health. Together, with partners, Robert Wood Johnson promotes policies, practices, and system change to amplify unheard voices and shift the national conversation about health and wellbeing.
About The Council of State Governments Justice Center
The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center is a national, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that combines the power of a membership association, representing state officials in all three branches of government, with policy and research expertise to develop strategies that increase public safety and strengthen communities.
© 2021 by The Council of State Governments Justice Center
Suggested Citation: “Expanding First Response: A Toolkit for Community Responder Programs,” The Council of State Governments Justice Center, December 2021.
Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the Council of State Governments.