Dauphin County officials say during the pandemic there has been a rise in crisis intervention calls, suicides and drug overdoses; multiple departments are working together to tackle the problem. Officials in Dauphin County say the increase in Crisis Intervention calls shows there s a need for services to be expanded. Commissioner George Hartwick is one of many people trying to make it happen. How are we going to respond? How are we going to meet people where they re at and what is it that we can do differently? says Dauphin County Commissioner George Hartwick.Commissioner Hartwick says overdoses are up 13% as well as the number of people coming into the intervention services offices, telling us those visits are currently up to approximately 700-800 people per month. Expanding services cannot be done by one agency alone, it must be a partnership, says Hartwick adding, one of the critical ones are right with law enforcement to be able to be there when there s a crisis situatio