The Dyer Care Center is a behavioral health crisis stabilization center in Maryland aimed at minimizing lengthy wait times at hospitals.
Prince George's County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks stands alongside organizers and public officials to cut the ribbon in front of Dyer Care Center in Clinton, Md., on July 29.
“That’s traumatizing in and of itself,” said Gales, a program director with the Prince George’s County mobile crisis response team. Once at the Dyer Care Center, patients can spend 23 hours there receiving specialized behavioral care that meets their immediate needs., who has made the expansion of mental health resources in Prince George’s a key part of her plan for residents — and emphasized the issues in her current bid for U.S.
Alsobrooks said that, during her previous job as the county’s top prosecutor, she learned that more than 70 percent of people arrested in Prince George’s were intoxicated and more than a third of people were on psychotropic medications. Lori Werrell, board chairman of the six-hospital nonprofit Totally Linking Care in Maryland, said she hopes emergency calls reporting mental health crises will become less likely to turn violent once the center has opened.“Law enforcement will know they have a behavioral health partner,” Werrell said. “All they have to do is call. That joint response theoretically should minimize the number of times things escalate because there’s somebody else with a different skill set able to intervene.
Now, Carr said, his deputies will be able to take someone directly to the Dyer Center at any hour of the day.
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