The Safety and Licensing committee is meeting 12/09/2020 at 5:30pm. There are the typical beer, wine, and liquor license applications.
One item of interest is the information item about the police Department’s intention to create a Victim Service Officer position and also form a Mental Health Response team that will ideally be up and running by early 2021.
From Chief Thomas’ memo: “For several years we have been working towards creating a Mental Health Response Team, comprised of officers and civilian clinicians, who would triage and respond to the appropriate mental health calls for service. After this move, our Community Resource Unit would be a four person team consisting of a Social Worker/Clinician, our BHO, our CLO, and the new VSO. Each of the members of this team would have a specialty, but they would operate as a multi-disciplinary team to address the issues that frequently overlap each other. We are working with several community partners to create this Mental Health Response Team at APD and I am optimistic we will have it in place in early 2021.”
See full meeting details here: https://cityofappleton.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=803431&GUID=B62CD3D3-5BEE-4B43-9B29-E741624CADFC&Options=info|&Search=
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