COMMUNITY HEALTH AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES OVERVIEW
 

The Community Health and Violence Prevention Services (CHVPS) will provide strategic direction, oversight, and implementation efforts to address the root causes of violence through a public health approach. 

The Division’s first two initiatives will encompass the reduction of gun violence in communities and dispatching health-based first responders to non-emergent 9-1-1 calls, to address behavioral health and social welfare concerns. CHVPS will work in partnership with local agencies and community-based partners for a coordinated, holistic response through ACCESS Harris County to improve community health and welfare and reduce violence. 

"HART handled and assisted law enforcement with a disturbance call by providing on-scene de-escalation techniques to a family with a depressed minor. A situation like this would have led to an arrest with a minor assaulting her mother; however, HART was able to step in to provide the appropriate interventions needed for the family."