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How a New Community-Based Alternative to Police Aims to Help Stockton Respond to Mental Health Crises
What if there was another number you could call besides 911 in an emergency? What if the person who responded was a social worker instead of a police officer? That is the idea behind the C.A.L.L. Stockton initiative, which led to a new pilot program that aims to serve as a community-based alternative to police.
Our Work in San Joaquin
Faith in San Joaquin leaders have been holding a series of prayer/praise walks targeting the five hot spots in Stockton to build relationships within those areas, identify new leaders and increase participation in Live Free efforts to reduce violence and increase alternatives to incarceration.
In addition to our work to ensure full implementation of Prop. 47 in San Joaquin county, our leaders are working to shape the use of funds from a local sales tax to help fund re-entry services and rehabilitation and to help build out local Cease Fire efforts to reduce gun violence.
Our leaders are also part of the Health for ALL work across the Valley to build momentum for additional state and county-level policy to cover the Valley’s remaining uninsured residents and to strengthen the health care safety net. At the county level, this includes educating stakeholders about the need to use county surplus savings for mental health and community clinics in Stockton.
Our key issues include:
- LIVE FREE: Police Accountability and Transparency
- La Red: Know Your Rights Training (Immigrants, Stop & Frisk, Protest, Students), Rapid Response, Developing Safe-Haven Congregations
- ECO-INTERFAITH: Clean air and clean energy
- HEALTH4ALL: Protection of Affordable Health Care and Provisional Healthcare for Undocumented Community