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.
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Adam Cloud
Adam Cloud is currently the city treasurer, overlooking Hartford’s finances, which have been on shaky ground for years. During the pandemic, Adam has ably guided the city’s Hartford Municipal Employees Retirement Fund (MERF). In fact, in December he announced that MERF exceeded $1.1 billion, the highest level during his 11-year tenure as city treasurer.
Adam has won re-election multiple times, proving some staying power. He was also the first Black man to serve as city treasurer.
But the real Cloud family power stems from the patriarch, Sandy Cloud Jr., a lawyer by trade who became the first Black barrister to work at law firm Robinson+Cole. He also served two terms in the state senate, became an Aetna executive and chaired or served on the boards of UConn Health, the Connecticut Health Foundation, Eversource and MetroHartford Alliance.