Mental health clinician to respond with area police
The Greenfield Station on High Street in Greenfield. STAFF FILE PHOTO/DAN LITTLE
The Montague Public Safety Complex on Turnpike Road in Turners Falls. Staff File Photo/Paul Franz
Published: 4/13/2021 5:06:07 PM
Three Franklin County police departments have teamed up with Clinical & Support Options (CSO), allowing them to work with a mental health clinician, starting May 12, when they receive calls involving mental health issues.
The nonprofit, which operates licensed behavioral health clinics throughout Western Massachusetts, will provide a master’s-level clinician who will work out of the Greenfield Police Station and be dispatched regionally, not only in Greenfield, but to Montague and Deerfield, too. When called upon, the full-time regional co-response clinician who is yet to be announced will arrive to the scene with an officer to provide expertise in the areas of emotional and mental health and behavioral de-escal