Guests: Commander Shari Shovlin, Redmond Police Department and Manka Dhingra JD, Assistant
Prosecutor, Mental Health Court and Commander Shari Shovlin of the Redmond Police Department & Manka Dhingra, JD, will be presenting information on what can happen after you call the police; what are the options? What is Mental Health Court? ITA? Diversion Center?
Shari Shovlin has served the community of Redmond for the past 18 years. She is a trained Crisis Intervention Team officer and has spearheaded the initiative to have all first responders trained in CIT, specifically for dealing with the mentally ill in Redmond.
Manka
Dhingra is a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney who is assigned to the King County
Mental Health Court (MHC). She holds a JD from the University of
Washington School of Law and Bachelor of Arts degrees in History and Political
Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
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