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HAVERFORD – U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon joined local police chiefs, county District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer, Delaware County Council members and other officials Monday in announcing a $650,000 grant to fund a new pilot program for “Mobile Crisis Teams” that will assist police in responding to situations where a person may be suffering from a mental health emergency.
“We know from statistics that about one in four people who are in the criminal justice system have mental health issues because we’re not adequately funding mental health supports outside the criminal justice system, so this is a way to try to start redressing that balance instead of foisting all of our problems on our schools or our police forces,” said Scanlon at a meeting on the funds Monday inside the Haverford Township Municipal Building…
