Oregon’s “Cahoots” program was effective, cheap and widely praised—until the relationship between the police department and ...

For more than 30 years, trained civilian responders with CAHOOTS have served the city of Eugene, taking many low-level service calls typically related to homelessness, mental health, and quality of ...

With the exit of CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping Out on the Streets) on April 7 from the city of Eugene after 35 years of ...

Facing a shortfall, Eugene is proposing deep cuts, including layoffs, closing Amazon Pool, ending its CAHOOTS contract and ...

Crisis Assistance Helping Out on the Streets, or CAHOOTS, was abruptly halted on Monday, April 7, cancelling essential ...

This paper studies the use of mobile crisis response teams—a non-uniformed pair consisting of a mental health worker and a medic—as a component of emergency response to 911 calls. We provide the first ...

The city's effort was hailed as a national model for other cities and inspired the Cahoots Act in the 2021 stimulus bill, which increased funding for mobile crisis units, The Wall Street Journal ...

Brian Bull / KLCC White Bird’s CAHOOTS program, which provides services to people in crisis, will no longer serve the city of Eugene. Employees had been warning of impending cuts for months ...

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Hoodie-clad hippies from Eugene, Ore., emerged as the unlikely solution to violent police encounters that sparked protests across America five years ago. Riding in vans, these unarmed counselors ...