Mary Bauer isn’t a police officer, but you’ll find her office inside the Sharpsburg Police Department. The McCandless resident is a full-time police social worker at the ready to assist Sharpsburg ...

Scott Township’s police department will have a new member, a social worker, on its team by summer. The township is hiring a full-time social worker to provide expert crisis intervention support in ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — After over four years of talks, Ann Arbor now has a model for an unarmed response program that could launch in 2026, using social workers instead of police to handle 911 calls such as ...

Police departments from Clarendon Hills, Hinsdale, Burr Ridge and Willowbrook have formed a team that will enable them to provide additional services by sharing a social worker from Northeast DuPage ...

Bridging the gap between social work and law enforcement is slowly becoming a reality in Connecticut. After two deadly police shootings, there were calls for changes to how law enforcement hand mental ...