DHHS-BH proposes to imbed Behavioral Health staff into HCSO patrol operations to co-respond to mental health calls. This will allow for a proactive program that emphasizes treatment in the least restrictive manner. The program will provide a wide range of appropriate services, both for immediate crises and follow up.

This project supports on-call availability for after-hours and weekends of a team including at least an officer and behavioral health specialist to be deployed to 911 calls to offer mental health assistance, triage, screening, crisis intervention, referrals, and follow up with aftercare within the community.

College Campus Behavioral Health Crisis Response is a partnership with college campuses to respond, in collaboration with campus law enforcement and other emergency response personnel, to behavioral health crises; to alleviate acute crisis; and divert students from needing emergency psychiatric care or justice interventions.

BHS and the Stockton Police Department are designing a role-clarity resource tool on responding to individuals experiencing a behavioral health crisis and integrating this resource into citywide crisis intervention trainings. The project also includes providing officer wellness training and developing recommendations addressing gaps in the first-responder.

The purpose of the Hayward Evaluation and Response Teams program is to build capacity for and implement a high-quality trauma-informed, service-appropriate co-responder program that reduces violence and diverts individuals from justice-involvement.

This project’s goal is to improve the City of Watsonville’s community safety and wellness through a multidisciplinary, trauma-informed, holistic, public health-centered, prevention/treatment-focused, socially and racially equitable, co-response system. The vision is for substance use/mental health crisis response to be coordinated, comprehensive, and culturally responsive, rather than producing additional trauma or entry into the criminal justice system.

BHR provides specialized clinical case management services to roughly 13,000 high risk/high need parolees with mental health and substance use issues statewide.  A grant award would expand BHR’s capacity to provide more accessible and meaningful client care by augmenting office-based services with field-based ones, including co-responding with parole agents.

The Downey Police Department is partnering with the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health to better serve and offer diversion programs to those affected by serious mental illness, substance use disorder, and homelessness.

Fort Bragg Police Department is collaborating with the mental health community to design and implement an integrated mental health response process. The intention is to prevent justice system involvement by engaging people in need in the most appropriate mental health services.

The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office’s “Reentry Coalition Project” aims to strengthen collaboration with reentry stakeholders by analyzing data and making recommendations for reentry programs that will help reduce recidivism. We will create a working group that meets monthly and implement a recidivism tracking system in order to measure outcomes.

The purpose of the program is to include clinical therapists in the response to 911 calls, using two-person teams to focus on risk assessment, proper diagnosis, and providing resources, services, and support.

This project unites Vallejo Police Department and its partners in a large-scale community needs assessment to track progress and identify gaps in current mental health and substance use crisis response. The results inform a co-response service model to ensure Vallejo has access to trauma-informed care for mental health- or substance use-related crises.

The Woodland Police Department and the Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency are expanding the existing successful Co-Responder Clinician Program to promote effective strategies to identify and reduce the risk of harm to individuals with mental illness or co-occurring mental illness/substance abuse and to increase public safety.

As a team of case managers and police officers, Campus Assessment and Stabilization Team is designed to assess and stabilize crisis situations through a humanistic, trauma-informed approach, reducing the need for hospitalizations and use of force while connecting individuals to support services to sustain their wellbeing.

The University of California Santa Cruz’s planned improvements to its mental health crisis response program, in collaboration with Campus Police, include strategies for a non-law enforcement team that can safely transport students to the local behavioral health unit when necessary.

The Alliance for Community Wellness is using the grant to develop a multidisciplinary Mobile Assessment and Transportation Unit. By co-responding with officers in the community, the team seeks to divert people with mental illness and SUD who are arrested for misdemeanors away from the criminal justice system to a navigation center for respite and supportive services.

The Chinatown Service Center (CSC) project design is to offer real-time assistance to local police departments (Monterey Park and San Gabriel) as well as other healthcare mediums to provide mental health support, education, and linkage to care. Services include crisis de-escalation, providing education about mental health and mental health treatment, and providing individualized follow-up to ensure clients and families are connected to services. The purpose is to prevent or reduce risks or justice involvement of individuals in the community.

LAGS Recovery Centers, Inc. has designed a mobile mental wellness team to work, alongside local agencies, on the streets of Santa Maria and Lompoc to do wellness checks on people experiencing homelessness, including those recently discharged from the ER or hospital, elderly, and youth. The objectives are to reduce the number of crises and increase wellness check-ups.

The Peer Supported Release & Community Reentry project is a partnership among MHASF, the district attorney, public defender, and San Francisco Jail Health Services. The goals are to provide peer support to individuals formerly incarcerated in the San Francisco jail, mitigate and reduce recidivism among individuals with mental health and co-occurring substance use challenges, integrate participants into the community, and improve their long-term health outcomes.

The goals of the ONTRACK Program Resources’ Community Health and Justice Project are to transform the way Sacramento’s criminal justice, behavioral health and Black community stakeholders work together; reduce Black disproportionality in the criminal justice system through a collective impact process; provide capacity building technical assistance and training; and employ a data-driven approach.

Orange County Youth Mental Health First Aid project is designed to train 30-50 school resource officers to become mental health advocates and provide a warm handoff of students to professional mental health coaches, counselors, and therapists. The project also supports professional social emotional support sessions from licensed clinical social workers for 200 students.

The purpose of the Safe Outside the System program is to establish a coordinated continuum of care among restorative justice organizations, mental health non-profits, law enforcement, and City of Oakland Department of Violence Prevention to reach individuals in early mental health crisis before they enter the criminal justice system.

The goal of Healthy Sonoma is to strengthen connection and referral processes among grade 7-12 school personnel, law enforcement, County agencies, and community organizations providing behavioral health/substance use services, including cross-agency professional development. The intention of law enforcement partnerships is to reduce incarceration and support school re-entry, using training to increase culturally appropriate responses to student behaviors.

The goals of Uplift Family Services, Santa Clara are 1) enhance current county-wide crisis services by building capacity among system partners, particularly law enforcement, first responders, and other community partners; and 2) increase community awareness of mental health and substance use issues to avoid over-utilization of law enforcement and 911.

Uplift Family Services proposes to 1) enhance current county-wide crisis services by building capacity among system partners, particularly law enforcement, first responders, and other community partners; and 2) increase community awareness of mental health and substance use issues to avoid over-utilization of law enforcement and 911 calls.