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Recommending the Executive Committee:
1. Receive an presentation from Grant Consultant Kevin O'Connell on the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program
2. Review and discuss June 2023 Report, Justice and Mental Health in El Dorado County, Analysis and Recommendations to Reduce Behavioral Health Needs in the Justice System
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The County was awarded a federal grant September 25, 2018, Collaborative County Approaches to Reducing the Prevalence of Individuals with Mental Disorders in Jail through Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) project number 2018-MO-BX-0017. The goal of the grant continues to be a system wide coordinated approach to reduce the prevalence of low risk individuals with MI and CMISA in local jails. The grant period was January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2020, however, in 2020 and 2021, we applied and were granted a project period extension of the grant, extending our grant through April 30, 2023.
As part of the grant closeout process, Consultant, Kevin O'Connell prepared a Report, "Justice and Mental Health in El Dorado County, Analysis and Recommendations to Reduce Behavioral Health Needs in the Justice System." The purpose of this report is to summarize the progress on meeting the goals as a county system, as well as provide an analysis for the county to continue to innovate and collaborate in the spirt of Stepping Up Initiative Resolution. The report also provides some new tools to support El Dorado County in sustainably implementing data-driven practices such as a problem-solving toolkit using principles of process improvement and human centered design, as well as tools to forecast policy and resource impacts. The analytic focus of this report is meant to give the county a baseline view of multiple systems, and the people that cross between them. COVID-19 makes comparisons or discussion of quantitative impacts that have been complicated by pandemic responses but provides a framework for moving forward.