St. Louis Park PD Add Vitals Technology To Better Support Individuals With Mental Health Issues

September 25, 2019

When a Vitals™ user comes within 80 feet of an officer or first responder equipped with the service, the officer will get a notification about the person’s diagnosis and how they may best interact with them.

When the City of St. Louis Park set its strategic initiatives for 2019, leaders promised residents, and their family members, they would focus on mental health and the community’s most vulnerable. The city is taking a big step in fulfilling the promise of inclusivity and support by adding the Vitals™ app to the city’s police department. […]

The Vitals™ App provides first responders with crucial information about vulnerable individuals, increasing the effectiveness of situational response and vastly expanding the potential for successful and safe resolutions. Vitals™ enrollees, or their family members, voluntarily create a personalized profile of critical information, including a person’s diagnosis and how they may best interact with them. When officers respond to calls that include enrollees, they immediately receive information about the enrollees on their phones. […]

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