St. Cloud Co-Responder Team Pairs Officer with Social Worker
ST. CLOUD St. Cloud s Co-Responder team has been working together for a little over a year now. The program pairs a mental health professional with a uniformed police officer to respond to 911 calls for help.
While the official program launched in March of 2020 it has been a few years in the making.
Kenzie Janson-Wolle is a social worker and full-time employee of the Central Minnesota Mental Health Center. She says it is her job to assess the mental health aspect of the crisis they are responding to.
Doing suicide assessments, safety assessments, and resource connection. Anything that an individual might need at that moment. That s my role. I don t have any background in policing, I m not a police officer, I m a mental health professional.