Events
2024-25 MEP Speaker Series
Dr. Angel Dunbar, Assistant Professor
Department of African American and Africana Studies, University of Maryland
October 7, 2024, 12-1pm EST
Benjamin Building Room 2101 or Zoom
Teacher vs. Observer Bias in Ratings of Black and White First Grade Children's Emotion Regulation: The Role of Positive Teacher-Child Relationships
Dr. Thomas Dee, Professor
Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
October 28, 2024
Mental-Health First Responders Reduce Involuntary Psychiatric Detentions
Police officers typically serve as first responders to emergencies involving mental-health crises and are legally authorized to place individuals in involuntary psychiatric detentions. Concerns that these involuntary detentions are overutilized and can cause unnecessary harm have made the practice highly controversial. Co-responder programs are an emerging and responsive innovation that pairs mental-health professionals with police officers on qualified emergency calls for service. This pre-registered study provides leading evidence on the impact of a co-responder program using two distinct quasi-experimental designs. The results indicate that co-responders reduce the frequency of involuntary psychiatric detentions by 16 percent. These results also suggest that nearly half of this reduction is due to an improved continuum of care that reduces future calls for service.
Hosted by the Maryland Population Research Center. See here for location and registration.
Dr. Samantha Viano, Assistant Professor
College of Education and Human Development, George Mason University
Spring 2025
Dr. Emily Penner, Associate Professor
School of Education, University of California, Irvine
Spring 2025
