Since last February, a program that partners police officers with social workers to form mental health crisis response units has offered help to more than 1,200 Lake County residents.
The program is an expansion of the Lake County sheriff's Crisis Outreach and Support Team, or COaST, and law enforcement leaders said it has had an immediate positive effect on the community.
"By having a specialized unit like this we're able to spend time with people and build up a rapport," said Lake County sheriff's Sgt. Jim Yanecek, who supervises the program."Folks can see we aren't there to slap a Band-Aid on the situation and go." "We are able to point people in the right direction but it is up to people that they take the help," Yanecek said."The program is truly voluntary we can't force anyone to do this.""Nine months later someone will call in and say 'I wasn't ready to talk then, but I am now,'" Yanecek said.
Idleburg called the first year of the program a major success and said he hasn't met a single community member or stakeholder opposed to it.
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