Your honest and thoughtful participation in this survey is essential to our work.  We seek to make Cleveland safer for everyone, and your experiences will help us in that effort.

You do not have to answer every question.  If you do not have an answer for a  question, simply leave it blank.

This is especially true for multiple choice questions.  You can leave them blank by not answering at all.  But if you accidentally click an answer, you won't be able to "undo" your selection and make it blank again.

For this survey, a "crisis situation" is an incident that involves someone with a mental illness, an addiction, a substance abuse problem, a developmental disability, or some other overwhelming personal crisis.  This definition would also include situations when an individual may have emotional troubles, is not taking their medications, or is having other mental difficulties.