Dignity Best Practices and Fourth Branch Institute are delighted to announce that we have formally joined our two non-profits into one shared organization.

As of March 1, we are operating together as Dignity Best Practices. Fourth Branch work is a permanent programmatic effort – The Fourth Branch Institute at Dignity Best Practices.

Our missions are sufficiently well aligned that this merger allows us to pool our experience and perspectives, share administrative resources, and benefit from deeper collaboration and more ambitious proposal-building. 

We expect to jointly have a larger impact than we would separately. We will continue our work as implementation experts to help cities and counties build the best fit response capabilities for crisis and conflict calls. Our shared goal is to see unarmed mobile community response teams (with behavioral health and mediation training) become just as standard as police and fire in our public safety first response ecosystems.

Our services will continue to provide guidance, training, and implementation technical assistance to 911, 988, and mobile teams to help launch and improve unarmed responses, while building and maintaining trust with first response colleagues in police, fire, and EMS.

The value created by our combination is in our people, experience, and partnerships. We would love to support your efforts as well! We look forward to continuing to be strong partners to local governments and others in our field throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Kind regards, Dan and Claire