SBSO HELP ME HOME PROGRAM
The St. Bernard Sheriff’s Office “Help Me Home” Program, created in cooperation with the St. Bernard Autism Awareness Krewe, is a voluntary enrollment program for adults, parents, and/or caregivers of individuals in St. Bernard Parish who have various mental or physical exceptionalities including but not limited to diagnoses such as Autism, Down Syndrome and Alzheimer’s.
The program is designed to provide first responders with critical information about the individual’s intellectual or physical condition in the event they ever need assistance and/or are unable to communicate effectively on their own.
Individuals can register for the program by completing the online registration form by scanning the QR code above, going to https://sbso.org/help-me-home/, or contacting the Help Me Home Program Administrator, Sgt. Jeff Vega at [email protected] at (504) 278-7657.
The information that you voluntarily provide will be placed in the Sheriff’s Office secure records. When deputies are dispatched to a residence of an individual registered, deputies will receive an alert and the information provided will be made accessible to deputies via laptops in their patrol vehicles.
Once registered, if an individual is lost and/or found alone by law enforcement and needs some form of assistance, the deputy will be able to quickly search for personal identifiers within the database to help them effectively and safely interact with the individual, render them aid and contact their caregiver in a timely manner.
For more information about the program, contact St. Bernard Sheriff’s Office, Sgt. Jeff Vega, Help Me Home program administrator, at [email protected] or at (504) 278-7657.
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