Health & Fitness
Arlington Program Pairs Mental Health Professionals With Police Officers
Police Officer John said, the number of mental health-related calls have gone up in the ten years he's been an officer.
May 19, 2023
ARLINGTON - An innovative program in Arlington is embedding mental health professionals with the police department.
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The mental health clinicians work for the Edinburg Center, a mental health organization in Bedford that created the program.
"Historically, police officers weren't the best trained on how to deal with substance abuse or mental health problems and we weren't really seeing a lot of that," said Arlington police officer John Costa. He said the number of mental health-related calls have gone up in the ten years he's been an officer.
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