b'[us], Eustache says, but that relation-ship is a work in progress. Were stillBASS FAMILY CHIROPRACTICtrying to build and nurture that rela-tionship.WithschoolopeningthisTreatment and Rehabilitation forpast month, she anticipates receivingHeadachesNeck PainBack Painmore calls from the district.Sports/Gym-Related InjuriesOther times, Eustache is workingDisc ProblemsPinched Nerveswith adults dealing with life stressorsAuto InjuriesPregnancy-Related Acheslike post-Covid anxiety, rising rents, or employment struggles. The oldest cli- Most Insurance Plans Acceptedents she sees are often retired and feelOur current hours are Mon - Fri 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. isolated; they may be confined to theirWe are following CDC safety guidelines.DR. WAYNE BASSMaplewood Mayor Dean Dafis was onehomes and struggle with that.TeleHealth Consultations available. of the committee members who led the effort to hire a crisis intervention socialEustachegrewupinMaplewood491B Valley Street, Maplewood973-378-BASS (2277)BassFamilyChiro.comworker. andgraduatedfromColumbiaHigh School, and still lives in town. Pressel that the police department might seeand her husband have lived in Maple-the same people on the same types ofwood for 17 years and raised their two calls over and over, and that the socialsons here. workerscanbuildrelationshipswithThat local connection, both say, has those people by responding with theenriched their work. police. We might see someone who isLiving in Maplewood, there were unhoused five or six times, Sally says,a lot of things that I was not aware of, and the individual will not accept helpsays Eustache. And after working here from the police. But on the seventhfor a year, I realized that mental health time, he says, Eustache or Pressel mayis definitely a primary concern within convince that person to accept help,the town. whetherthatismental health care or references to social service agencies. The socialworkerspresence with the police, says Sally, helpspeopletrustthat were not just out there to arrest. Further, the co-re-sponse model Maplewood useshasattractedatten-tionbothinNewJersey and around the country. EustacheandPres-sel handle cases involving people experiencing emo-tionaldisturbance,sub-stanceabuse,hoarding, domesticviolence,and homelessness,tonamea few, Dafis says. Herclients,EustacheMarthe Eustache was the first crisis intervention says,rangefromadolescentsocial worker the township of Maplewood hired.togeriatric.SometimessheworksWe love this community and Im with students struggling with mentalso proud to be working for our Health health, part of what she acknowledgesDepartment. As both a resident and an isawidespreadcrisisamongyoungemployee of the town, I have the op-peoplefollowingthepandemic,re- portunity to see and learn more about mote school, and isolation from socialhow our local government works, says settings.TheyworkcloselywiththePressel. SouthOrange-MaplewoodSchoolEustaches family is Haitian-Amer-District.ican, and Eustache is bilingual in Eng-The guidance counselors are verylish and Haitian Creole. Essex County receptive, and they know when to callis home to tens of thousands of Hai-food matters /33'