Lisa Caron, Chief Operating Officer
of Pines Health Services
To Serve a Community
it Takes a Team
by Karim Slifka
What’s the sign of a good relationship? Is it in their community safe and healthy. Though they
when you can call someone at a moment’s notice provide very different services, knowing they have
for help, and that help is
the same purpose makes
their collaboration secondthere? Is it when you listen
to each other and respect
nature. How and when did
this relationship become so
each other’s unique skills? Is
it when you share ideas and
seamless?
make things happen?
The collaboration started
when Pines and the Caribou PD
These qualities could
joined other members of the
Community Alcohol and Drug
describe two best friends
since childhood, or they could
Lisa Caron, COO of Pines Education Team (CADET). CADET
describe the relationship
was established in Caribou to
promote “community change”
between Pines Health Services
and the Caribou Police Department (PD). Both with the goal of decreasing “alcohol, tobacco, and
organizations share a mission to keep the people other drug abuse and dependency.” To protect the
“The Chief and his
team never let us
down.”
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