{"id":253508,"date":"2026-07-28T04:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253508\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T04:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:49:06","slug":"scranton-police-officer-honored-for-ensuring-safety-well-being-for-all-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253508\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton police officer honored for ensuring safety, well-being for all \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scranton police officer and Crisis Intervention Team member Nick Philbin was recently presented with the NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)\/NEPA CIT Challenge Coin in recognition of his extraordinary service in response to mental health crisis calls. Scranton Counseling Center\u2019s co-responder, Mandy LaCoe, nominated Philbin for the award because she said he is making a significant impact in our community as he de-escalates tense situations with empathy and understanding to ensure the safety and well-being for all parties involved. Pictured at the presentation, from left, are: Ray Hayes, NEPA CIT founding member; Marie Onukiavage, CIT co-coordinator and NAMI executive director; LaCoe; Philbin; John Chilleri, CIT coordinator; and Cherianne Marsico, CIT coordinator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scranton police officer and Crisis Intervention Team member Nick Philbin was recently presented with the NAMI (National Alliance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[524,201,182,28,727,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-253508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-community","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-photos-and-videos","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}