Thursday, January 2, 2025
1/2/2025
The Partners Diversion Program (PDP) will expand current diversion practices and provide comprehensive evidence-based services, including a 24/7 Drop Off center, to an unduplicated 270-480 individuals annually for a total of 1,950 individuals served over the life of the grant. A comprehensive evaluation and performance management system will support the PDP as an adaptable data-responsive program. Persons served will be 18-years of age or older, have a Serious Mental Illness or Co-occurring Substance Use Disorder (SMI/COD) and will be found to be in need of service or engaged in low level crimes by local law-enforcement officers (LEOs). An integrated system of care targeting low-level offenders with SMI/COD will be delivered via a comprehensive assessment leading to provision of evidence-based practices (EBPs) that include the Memphis Crisis Intervention Team (CIT), Law-Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD), Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT), Assertive Community Treatment Teams (ACTT), Medication Management According to Protocol (MedMAP), and SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery Technical Assistance (SOAR). Persons served will be 18-years of age or older and have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness and/or a comorbid substance use disorder. The project will meet two overall goals: (1) to create a sustainable pre-booking diversion program that will successfully meet outcomes as well as the infrastructure to collect performance measure and other data; and, (2) to integrate the PDP into the system of care and integrated care models that PBHM is creating via internal funds and other grant dollars, e.g. a SAMHSA system of care grant recently awarded and the Whole Person Integrated Care (WPIC) initiative. Four outcomes are being targeted to assess program impact. These include: (1) an 85% reduction in treatment/assessment scores on well validated tools (e.g. the CDC Health Days survey); (2a) an 80% reduction in subsequent contacts with LEOs within six-months of PDP intake and (2b) a 70% reduction within 12-months of intake; (3) 25% decrease in arrests of individuals known or suspected of being afflicted by SMI-COD in Year 1, increasing 5% each year; and, (4) increase psychiatric medication compliance by 50%. A series of mandated performance measures, additional performance measures and outputs will also be targeted for data collection. Key activities/infrastructure development include (1) to ensure community-based interagency community coordination; (2) hold regular meetings with a central group (Law Enforcement and Behavioral Health Partnership group (LEBHP) for decision-making and support; (3) an integrated system of EBPs and other services and support at all stages of diversion (Encounter, Enable, Engage); (4) effective data sharing; (5) strong leadership via the Project Implementation Team (PIT); (6) culturally competent participating staff; (7) training and support of LE with cross-training of LE principles/perspective for behavioral health (BH) practitioners; (8) implementation of a community outreach and awareness plan, and, (9) a strong evaluation approach to meet all SAMHSA requirements and support rapid feedback to all PDP partners.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).