The Paradise Valley Police Department wants the town’s elderly and disabled residents to know “You Are Not Alone.”

The You Are Not Alone, or YANA, program, allows aging residents to remain independent and living at home, with the peace of mind that someone nearby is looking out for their welfare.

The idea for YANA was brought to the town almost 10 years ago by Patricia Wagner, now the lead volunteer for the program.

“I had heard about the YANA program. I think I must have read it online or something,” Wagner said. “This was a couple years before it even started in Paradise Valley, and I thought what a cool program that was. And I thought our town is small enough that we could actually do it here.”

The free program is coordinated through Community Resource Officer Jimmy Phan, who gets r

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