Champaign’s new mental health co-responder team members, from left, Jamie Essien, Jorge Elvir Jr., Regina Parnell, Destiny Gidron and Ethel Matus, are part of the city’s equity and engagement ...
Over the past five years, the Champaign Police Department has responded to 80,251 calls for service that ‘had the potential to include a mental or behavioral health component,’ according to Rachel Joy ...