Friday, November 22, 2024
11/22/2024
The Hennepin County Early Diversion Project will improve early diversion capacity in Minneapolis and its suburbs. Co-Responder Teams will respond to Emotionally Disturbed Person (EDP) 911 calls and make follow-up visits for assessments and referrals to community services. A new Behavioral Health Care Center will function as a law enforcement transfer point diverting individuals with SMI or COD away from jail and justice system involvement into immediate and ongoing community mental health and substance abuse services. Hennepin County will sustain and expand Minneapolis Police Department Co-Responder services to three officer/psychiatric social worker teams that will respond to an estimated 1,800 EDP 911 calls (approximately 400 per full year of the grant) and refer an estimated 1,050 individuals for ongoing SMI/COD services (approximately 300 per full year of the grant). Hennepin County will also implement its new Behavioral Health Care Center. The Center will be an early diversion site where MPD officers can conduct warm hand-offs to a wide variety of mental health and substance abuse services. The focus of grant activity is to embed SW/LADC case managers and two peer recovery specialists contracted from community mental health providers at the Center to successfully enroll an estimated 360 Center users with SMI/COD in ongoing evidence-based and medically necessary services and supports (approximately 80 per full year of the grant). Parallel Center services funded by Hennepin County tax dollars and third-party billing will provide withdrawal management services, short-term residential mental health crisis stabilization services, a primary/urgent care clinic specializing in individuals with SMI/COD, and intakes for social services at the same site. Hennepin County’s goals are to increase successful enrollment and retention of diverted individuals into ongoing care, reduce arrests and use of force, reduce overall bookings of individuals with SMI/COD into the Hennepin County Detention Center, and reduce the number of post-enrollment detention events within the population of participants vs. pre-enrollment baselines. Through this project, Hennepin County will expand and extend its Co-Responder services and implement an innovative Behavioral Health Care Center model that successfully diverts hundreds of individuals with SMI/COD from arrest and detention into ongoing, evidence-based mental health and substance use disorder services and supports.
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).
