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  • AMOS Expands Access to Children's Mental Health Services: New Mobile Crisis Responders to be Hired

    After 100 AMOS leaders appeared at a Broadlawns Medical Center Board Meeting to support an initiative expanding children and youth access to mental health services, Broadlawns Trustees voted 5-2 to hire two mobile crisis responders trained to work with children and adolescents.  Walnut Hills UMC leader Connie McKeen delivered testimony on behalf of AMOS in support of this momentous step forward for Polk County youth and their families.  During the hearing, one of the Trustees exclaimed, "Wow, that's a lot of people."  

    20 AMOS leaders followed up in person within weeks, inspired by thousands of Polk County residents who shared stories based on their experiences, conducted research, and organized postcard campaigns and neighborhood walks over 4 years to make children's crisis services a reality.

    In a related Oped, leaders Lindsey Braun and Benjamin C. Bell expressed, 

    Anger has been the pilot light that has kept AMOS leaders doggedly pursuing the implementation of youth mental health crisis services for over four years.

    New Mental Health Resources Coming for Children in Polk County, Des Moines Register  [pdf]

    Polk County Unveils New Mental Health Services for Children, KCCI Des Moines [pdf]

    Written by Courtney Dufford
    June 14, 2021

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