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Tiffany Bellesi

Clinician


Tiffany is a LCSW in Florida and New Jersey. She was the first clinician hired for University of Florida Police Department’s embedded co-responder program in June 2022. She is the full-time dayshift co-responder clinician. Tiffany spends her shifts riding in the patrol vehicle with a co-responder team officer, and they are dispatched to all calls for service but with priority given to mental or behavioral health/crisis calls.

Tiffany received a Bachelor’s Degree from Salisbury University as a double major in Social Work and Psychology. Tiffany also received a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Rutgers University. She has professional certificates in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Violence Against Women and Children. Tiffany has provided therapeutic trauma-informed services to families in the foster care system, as well as at a re-entry correctional facility.