Rocky Mountain Crisis Partners are preparing to take those calls in addition to the thousands they already take from across the state
“A lot of the services that will be available with 988 will be a continuation of things we have been doing,” said Tom Grimmer, CFO at RMCP.
Erik Jacobsen, who started his work at RMCP as a crisis specialist, and now continues to answer calls while working as a community liaison.In the last two years and as communities navigated through a pandemic, he says calls not only increased, but so have the struggles. They added staff to help carry the load, but now with plans to add more weight in the coming months they’ll need to do it again.
But they’ll need some help of their own to make it happen and would like to hire and train dozens of new call takers as well as other positions.
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