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This specialized response is organized, coordinated, and executed under the name Specialized Multidisciplinary Alternate Response Team or S.M.A.R.T. and serves the area of unincorporated Bexar County and our 26 suburban cities. View the S.M.A.R.T. for Mental Health Website

The county’s Specialized Multidisciplinary Alternate Response Team, called SMART, is a collaboration between the sheriff’s department and several mental and physical wellness organizations. The SMART team was developed in 2020 to address a gap in the county’s mental health resources. According to Burnam, the goal of expanding staffing overnight was for the team to respond to as many ...

Specialized Multidisciplinary Alternate Response Team (SMART) SMART multidisciplinary response team comprised of the Bexar County Sherriff’s Office (BCSO), multiple Bexar County EMS Providers and The Center for Healthcare Services (CHCS) that responds to mental health related 911 calls in Bexar County. The goal of the response is to provide ...

The Standardized Multidisciplinary Alternate Response Team, a joint partnership among Bexar County Sheriff's Office and a handful of San Antonio-area emergency and mental health care groups, was ...

BEXAR COUNTY, Texas — When a 911 call about a mental health crisis comes in, Bexar County’s Specialized Multidisciplinary Alternate Response Team, or S.M.A.R.T team, now sends more than an ...

The Specialized Multidisciplinary Alternate Response Team (S.M.A.R.T.) is dispatched through the Bexar County Sheriff's Office Public Safety Communications Center.

BEXAR COUNTY, Texas – It’s a big development for Bexar County. S.M.A.R.T., the county’s crisis mental health response team, is now a 24/7 operation. “People with mental health issues ...

Bexar County Deputy Sheriff’s Ronald Bailey, right, with a Specialized Multidisciplinary Alternative Response Team, (SMART) unit talks with a consumer in the city’s far West Side on Wednesday ...

SMART stands for Specialized Multidisciplinary Alternate Response Team. It’s a team of mental health professionals and a paramedic who respond to low level 911 mental health related calls.

In October 2020, the Bexar County Commissioners Court implemented new ways in which members of our community can seek mental health support through our first responder infrastructure. This specialized response is organized, coordinated, and executed under the name Specialized Multidisciplinary Alternate Response Team or S.M.A.R.T. and serves ...

In October 2020, the Bexar County Commissioner’s Office allocated $1.5 million toward the Specialized Multidisciplinary Alternate Response Team — known as SMART. The team was made possible by ...

In October 2020, Bexar County, Texas, officials launched the Specialized Multidisciplinary Alternate Response Team (SMART) with a $1.5 million allocation. This team, comprising social workers, law enforcement officers, and paramedics, provides immediate, compassionate support to those people experiencing mental health crises.

S.M.A.R.T. is the county’s mental health crisis response team that dispatches to 911 mental health calls. This unit rides unmarked for a reason: to meet residents where they are.

Similar to Dallas, Bexar County has seen promising results, expanding to two teams this year. Now, the City of San Antonio is looking to invest about $4.8 million to establish a program of its own, part of its response to growing calls for police reform in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd in Minnesota in May of 2020.

In October 2020, Bexar County, Texas, officials launched the Specialized Multidisciplinary Alternate Response Team (SMART) with a $1.5 million allocation. This team, comprising social workers, law enforcement officers, and paramedics, provides immediate, compassionate support to those people experiencing mental health crises. Through interviews and on-the-ground footage, this video showcases ...

When a 911 call about a mental health crisis comes in, Bexar County’s Specialized Multidisciplinary Alternate Response Team, or S.M.A.R.T team, now sends more than an officer and EMS worker to the scene.

Bexar County leaders say they have responded to 500 calls since the program started in October. ... which stands for Specialized Multidisciplinary Alternate Response Team, could help hundreds of ...

S.M.A.R.T. stands for Bexar County’s Specialized Multidisciplinary Alternate Response Team. It has a similar structure to SA Core, except it is made up of Bexar County Sheriff Deputies, EMS ...

Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff speaks during a news conference highlighting the first year of operation for the Specialized Multidisciplinary Alternate Response Team, or SMART, Monday morning ...