<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/first-response-first-center-of-its-kind.html" dsn="news"><title>First Response, First Center of Its Kind</title><item_date>12/07/2022 10:36:32 AM</item_date><author>Staff Report</author><image><img src="/news/images/first-response-center.jpg" alt="photo of Dr. Sarah Abbott and Police and Deputy Chiefs"/></image><image_caption>Dr. Sarah Abbott leads a Symposium at the University of Limerick, Ireland, with Lester Baker, Framingham Police Chief, and Sean Riley, Deputy Chief.</image_caption><thumbnail><img src="/news/images/first-response-center.jpg" alt="photo of Dr. Sarah Abbott and Police and Deputy Chiefs"/></thumbnail><summary>William James College launches Center for Crisis Response and Behavioral Health offering pioneer programming. A landmark center offering graduate certification as well as the first practical interdisciplinary co-response training program housed within an academic institution in the country for police and clinicians—to gain over 150 hours of critical mental health and substance-use-related crisis response training.</summary><category>Around Campus</category><featured/><tags><tag>Around Campus</tag></tags></item>