b'20RAPPORT | Feature StoryFirst Response, First Centerof Its Kind Dr. Sarah Abbott leads a Symposium at the University of Limerick, Ireland, with Lester Baker, Framingham Police Chief, and Sean Riley, Deputy Chief.CENTER FOR CRISIS RESPONSE & BEHAVIORAL HEALTH OFFERS PIONEER PROGRAMMINGAn active robbery and shootout. A missing(CRBH). As director of the CRBH, she also joins child. A bat in the basement. A woman whothe Colleges faculty as an associate professor of has woken up to find her husband of 60counseling and behavioral health. A landmark center, years has died of a heart attack in the night.the CRBH offers graduate certification as well as the Whom do you call? first practical interdisciplinary co-response training program housed within an academic institution in For a variety of reasons, police officers are thethe country for police and cliniciansto gain over 150 default responders to people in crisis in thehours of critical mental health and substance-use-community, says Dr. Sarah Abbott. They get a 911related crisis response training.call dispatched to them and they have to go. In that moment, they cannot reassign their sworn duties.Im Not a Cop.Abbott should know; shes worked with lawWalk down the streets of Northampton and youllenforcement as a behavioral health partner forsee people with just about every diagnosis in thedecades, reimagining traditional roles in publicDSM 5, says Josh Wallace, an officer and peer safety. A pioneer in crisis response, she has builtsupport team coordinator with the Northampton her career on developing innovative co-responderPolice Department and a member of the inaugural programming and more recently, in training othersclass of the CRBHs graduate certificate program. to do the same. Wallace is referring to the 5th edition of the Its no surprise that William James has partneredDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental with Abbott to create the new 蜜桃tvDisorders, a widely used handbook for diagnosing Center for Crisis Response and Behavioral Healthpsychiatric illnesses.'