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Public-safety committee highlights $455,000 mental-health follow-up grant and new alert signup
Summary
The public-safety committee heard an update on a three-year, $455,000 Mental Health Follow-up Program that responded to 121 calls in its first year and an implementation briefing on the city's new Regroup emergency alert system; officials urged residents to sign up at cityofgreen.org/greenalert or by texting the listed short code.
The Green City public-safety committee received two program updates: a report on a three-year Mental Health Follow-up Program funded by a $455,000 grant and a briefing on the city's new Regroup emergency alert system.
Public-safety chair Davitus reported that Dr. Leila Helay, the program’s community outreach associate, provided an extensive update on the program’s first-year activity: the team responded to 121 calls and followed up with people experiencing mental-health or substance-use crises to connect them with resources and reduce strain on emergency responders. "They did respond to, 121, calls," Davitus said when summarizing the committee briefing.
The committee also heard from communications manager Valerie Wolford about the city’s replacement of its prior alerting system with Regroup. Wolford explained that residents should sign up at cityofgreen.org/greenalert to receive text, email or phone notifications tailored by address, or can sign up via text by sending "join greenoh" to 58339; staff will provide mail outreach and phone sign-up assistance for residents who are not online.
Committee members emphasized the program’s potential to divert crisis responses from EMS and fire resources, and encouraged resident enrollment in the alert system to receive weather, road-closure and other critical notifications.
