Boulder City Council approves consent agenda, OKs behavioral health response team pilot program
Jan. 6—At its first meeting of the year, the Boulder City Council on Thursday unanimously approved its consent agenda — moving a new behavioral health response pilot program forward in effort to help free up police officers' time and allow trained clinicians to respond to non-criminal 911 calls.
The council also approved all other items on the consent agenda.
The new pilot program — which the City Council tentatively renamed Health Equity Assistance Team or HEART, following City Councilmember's Lauren Folkerts' recommendation, rather than Community Assistance Response Team — will begin this year.
The program will include licensed behavioral health clinicians and paramedics who will respond to behavioral health calls, human services calls and medical calls, as well as case managers who would handle follow-up cases.
