SAN ANTONIO – Bexar County’s new mental health program, which finds dispatchers on the front line of identifying mental health calls, saw a total of seven calls in its first week of operation.
The program is called the Specialized Multidisciplinary Alternate Response Team, or SMART.
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Sarah Hogan, division director for Southwest Texas Crisis Collaborative at Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council, said two of the calls were dispatched directly from a 911 call. Five were dispatched to a patrol deputy who identified the call to be mental health-related.
Some subjects of the calls were taken to a behavioral health facility for treatment. The others were resolved at the scene.