Speaking & Presentations
Dr. Sarah Abbott leverages 20+ years of frontline, research, and international experience to help law enforcement, behavioral health, and community leaders design and deploy practical, high-impact crisis-response systems.
Selected Presentations
March 2026; Hosted, Responding to Veterans in Crisis, Webinar, William James College Continuing Education Series, Online.
March 2026; Panelist, Introduction to the Section 12 Process, Webinar, UMass Chan, forHealth TREAT Initiative, Online.
January 2026; Building Strong Co-Response Teams: A Practical Hiring Framework, Webinar, William James College Continuing Education Series, Online.
November 2025; Co-Response Research: Outcomes and Evidence. Webinar, International Co-Responder Alliance, Online.
May 2025; Welcoming Remarks and Panel Participant at the William James College and Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation Law Enforcement and Autism Co-Response Collaboration; Newton, MA.
March 2025; Evolution of an Assessment Tool for Measuring Impact of Scenario-based Training in a Classroom Setting. 3rd Annual Co-Response Research Symposium, Cambridge, MA
December 2024; CAST: Co-Response and Behavioral Health Training, An Garda Síochána, Limerick, Ireland
Speaking Topics
Include, but are not limited to:
Building and Sustaining Effective Co-Response Programs
Police–Clinician Partnerships in Practice
Behavioral Health Crisis Response
Leadership and Culture Change
Trauma-Informed Responses
Building Effective Multidisciplinary Teams
Lessons from Two Decades of Co-Response
Interested in inviting Sarah to speak?
Dr Abbott is available for conferences, professional meetings, leadership events, panels, and customized presentations.