“We're providing better health care outcomes, we're being more efficient with officers’ time and mental health professionals’ time,” Platkin said. “There are more officers sitting at a hospital waiting for three or four hours to fill out paperwork, waiting for that mental health professional to show up.”
“The expansion of Arrive Together to Newark is a game-changer for us, a real significant shift in how we respond to the behavioral health crisis,” Kevin Corbett, president of NJ Transit, said. ARRIVE Together launched in Newark on June 21, Platkin said. The program there is a three-day-per-week pilot in which mental health screeners from Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care are paired with members of law enforcement.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka didn’t attend the news conference but released a statement praising Platkin’s work to expand the program.
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