mental health crisis

Local police departments are seeing a rise in mental health crisis calls and both Waterbury and South Windsor say that it’s partially driven by the ongoing pandemic. They are meeting the need in a new way: not just with intervention, but also with counseling and support. Both departments have Crisis Intervention Teams. When an emergency call comes in, officers...

Both departments say the uptick in these calls is tied to the pandemic, and deploy crisis intervention teams alongside officers.

Experts say millions of Americans are going untreated for their mental health issues during the pandemic.

Figuring out how to treat mental illness and substance abuse in our communities is not a new conversation, and there is no one size fits all solution. In Recovery: Conversations on Mental Health, NBC Connecticut spoke to individuals who live with mental illness, experts who try to understand and treat these conditions, and people who run programs trying to...