Published January 25. 2021 5:28PM
Jeanne Milstein
What if you or a loved one experiences a mental health challenge that might normally involve a call to the New London police?
What if, instead of strictly a police response, your call was met with a different kind of intervention involvement of a skilled mental health navigator, a person who will be there in an ongoing, holistic way?
This could be the new reality if New London succeeds in expanding our highly successful opioid navigator model to meet new challenges.
A recently released report by the Public Safety Policy Review Committee recommended increased funding to the Department of Human Services and that the New London Police Department expand its Crisis Intervention Team Training program and Mobile Outreach, both operated by the state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.
With no shareholders breathing down their necks asking for quarterly returns, a public option could focus on creating the kind of coordinated care that
We at the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme stand firm against this profane alliance of religion, white supremacy, and far-right political values.