Lincoln County Crisis Response Team in limbo
Lincoln County’s Crisis Response Team is having a crisis of its own.
The team stopped operating sometime in the last few months and its future is in jeopardy while new leadership is sought.
County probation officer Vanessa Williamson, on the job since 2018, led the effort to build a crisis intervention team after seeing many jail inmates who suffered from mental illness and substance abuse. She attended a training event in 2021 and then developed a local academy in 2022 where first responders learned how to improve their responses to mental and substance abuse crises.
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