Jim Marshall and Jason Scott with the 911 Training Institute return to talk about Emergency Mental Health Dispatching (EMHD) and Medical Priority Dispatch System Protocol 41: Caller in Crisis. They discuss the vast, untapped humanity that Emergency Dispatchers have to offer and the importance of adequately supporting those taking calls. 

For Your Information: 

Listen to the first part here: https://www.aedrjournal.org/principles-of-emergency-mental-health-dispatching-with-jim-marshall-and-jay-scott  

Statistics about suicide in the United States: https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/suicide-data-statistics.html    

Check out the 911 Training Institute’s website: https://www.911training.net/    

Take the College of Emergency Dispatch course on the Protocol 41: Caller in Crisis: https://academy.emergencydispatch.org/