crisis response team

Mayor Gina Leichty says the car fits with the city's ongoing efforts to provide better care for people with mental health problems

The announcement came during a Tuesday community action group meeting where members of the public shared ideas on how to improve mental health crisis response procedures.

Community conversations around policing and mental health are continuing in South Bend a month after the fatal police shooting of Dante Kittrell.

Kittrell was armed and in the midst of a mental health crisis when South Bend police shot and killed him late last month.

South Bend activists and city leaders continue to debate the city’s fledgling mental health crisis response services.

A proposed common council resolution put South Bend city leaders at odds Monday about who should be responsible for responding to mental health crises in the city.

The St. Joseph County chapter of activist group Faith in Indiana held a town hall Sunday calling for state support of a “robust crisis response system.”

Currently, someone in the midst of a mental health crisis in St. Joseph County has few options but to go to an emergency room or call 911, which local…