This episode builds upon our previous episode on community policing with autism and disability inclusion in mind. For this episode, Sergeant Charles Heasley, of the Plano, TX Police Department, provides a deeper understanding into community policing practices through the eyes of mental health, which includes how the Department trains its force to interact with members of the autism and intellectually disabled communities who may be experiencing a crisis of some kind, including mental health challenges. In this interview, he provides listeners to his initial impression of community policing and its strong social work component, deeper explanations of some of the policing programs catered to neurodiverse and/or intellectually disabled individuals, challenges that lay ahead and lessons learned along the way.
To get full context, it is strongly encouraged to listen to the two episodes immediately before this one, if you haven't done so already.
Here are some of the links below to some of the references made in this episode.
https://www.texascit.org/
https://www.collincountytx.gov/probate/Pages/default.aspx
http://pdf.plano.gov/1167/Take-Me-Home-Program
https://mypossibilities.org/
https://www.lifepathsystems.org/
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