Behavioral crisis is the new normal
A growing share of calls for service involve mental health, substance use, or acute emotional crisis. Officers need clinical-grade recognition skills, not just tactics.
FY26 SAFER OUTCOMES: Grants.gov SF-424 due August 27, 2026 at 4:59 PM ET. Full JustGrants application due September 3, 2026 at 4:59 PM ET.
TACTBook and The Forge bring operational, clinical, safer-intervention, and lived-experience expertise together to help agencies strengthen crisis response, de-escalation, officer readiness, and organizational learning.
Book a 45-Minute Agency Planning CallPublic safety teams face the same behavioral escalation curve as clinical staff — with less time, less information, and higher stakes.
A growing share of calls for service involve mental health, substance use, or acute emotional crisis. Officers need clinical-grade recognition skills, not just tactics.
A shared language for escalation means partners, dispatch, and supervisors read the same cues and respond as one unit.
Your agency is the eligible applicant and remains responsible for registrations, application decisions, procurement, and submission. We support the program design.
The opportunity supports dynamic, ongoing de-escalation and crisis-response work — training, scenarios, supervisors, after-action review, measurement, sustainability, and officer recovery.
Officer wellness speaker reel — human connection, lived experience, and speaking credibility.
Safer Outcomes program overview — a fast brief for chiefs, command staff, training leaders, and grant teams.
TACTBook can help an agency connect training, scenarios, supervisors, after-action review, measurement, sustainability, and officer recovery — so the work continues long after training day.
Book a 45-Minute Agency Planning CallOutcomes by Component
Behavioral indicators, dispatch-to-scene continuity, disability and crisis considerations.
Self-regulation, fact-versus-assumption checks, communication, and lawful decision-making.
Team coordination, proportionate options, safer handling, and scenario-based practice.
After-action learning connected to policy, force review, supervision, data, and training.
Responder readiness, peer/supervisor pathways, and 2-hour, 2-day, and 2-week follow-up.
The agency is the eligible applicant and remains responsible for registrations, application decisions, procurement, and submission. TACTBook supports program design, training, and measurement.
Book a 45-minute planning call during the grant window and map a program your agency can sustain.