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Tenafly officials discuss joining stateArrive Togetherco-response for mental health calls
Summary
Council members and public-safety leaders discussed joining New JerseyArrive Togetherprogram to provide a mental-health professional as a co-responder for some crisis calls and tasked staff to pursue details and partnerships.
Council members and town public-safety leaders on Feb. 18 discussed enrolling in the state-sponsored Arrive Together program and other options to get mental-health professionals to respond with or follow up on police and ambulance calls.
The discussion focused on whether Tenafly should join the regional Arrive Together program (free to municipalities, officials said) or develop a local social-worker or behavioral-health co-responder attached to the police department or the volunteer ambulance corps.
Councilwoman Lauren Dayton introduced the item as a way to add a qualified mental-health professional to some emergency responses: "What this is is a qualified, either psychologist, psychiatrist, social health worker who deals with mental health calls," she said, describing…
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