2023 A Look Back: Community Care Award

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Wednesday, 27/12/2023

This year, the Sylva Police Department received a grant from the Dogwood Health Foundation to continue the Community Care Program with a paid, full-time community care liaison position for the next three years. 

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Sylva Police awarded grant for Community Care Program

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Wednesday, 24/05/2023

Thanks to a set of grants, the Sylva Police Department will be able to continue its Community Care Program with a paid, full-time Community Care Liason.

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Community Care: With successful data in hand, Sylva’s pilot police program grows

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Wednesday, 02/11/2022

When Western Carolina University Professors Katie Allen and Cyndy Caravelis approached Sylva Police Chief Chris Hatton with a proposal for a Community Care pilot program, using social work interns in the police department he was understandably skeptical. Crisis response involving a student intern seemed like a risk he was not willing to take.

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