Community Outreach

In 2024, the Fairhaven Police Department responded to seventeen overdoses, in which two were fatal. Narcan was administered on ten occasions and the deployment of Narcan was successful in all ten deployments. The department’s community outreach unit conducted one hundred thirteen follow-up attempts and were successful with sixty-two contact visits. Out of the sixty-two successful contact visits, thirty-nine people accepted services from the unit. Beginning in August of 2024, the department began utilizing a mental health clinician, while also documenting behavioral health data. There were eighteen behavioral health incidents documented since the inception of the mental health component of the program.