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Kenosha County committee approves one-year grant to embed social worker with Pleasant Prairie police
Summary
The Human Services Committee approved a one-year state crisis-intervention grant to place an embedded social worker with the Pleasant Prairie Police Department. The pilot will use standardized suicide screens, link people to behavioral-health services and distribute safety equipment; the village agreed to a local match.
Kenosha County's Human Services Committee voted to accept a one-year state crisis intervention grant to fund an embedded social worker who will work with the Pleasant Prairie Police Department.
The grant award is $75,000, and Pleasant Prairie officials pledged $34,794 in local support, county staff said during the Sept. committee meeting. Carrie, identified in the record as director of behavioral health services, described the project as a one-year pilot to "enhance suicide screening and identification methods," improve linkage to behavioral-health services and reduce suicide risk in the village.
The pilot will train officers and the embedded worker to use standardized screening tools including the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale and the Patient…
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