Tuesday, April 23, 2024
4/23/2024
The Response, Evaluation and Crisis Help (REACH) initiative at the University of Illinois Police Department (UIPD) is a collaborative team approach to crisis response comprising of CIT trained police officers, behavioral health detectives, social workers and comfort dogs. The main objective is to create clinically informed, efficient, coordinated, and compassionate care at the time of crisis and provide follow-up services for citizens while awaiting engagement in long term treatment. REACH will serve the diverse and vibrant population of students, faculty and staff on the University of Illinois campus by augmenting the current CIT model to include a co-responder team while utilizing therapy dogs in crisis response. Initiative goals include increasing the number of serious mental illness and serious emotional disturbance trainings to UIPD first responders, creating and nurturing linkages with university and/or community-based mental health agencies to refer consumers in need for wrap-around services, increasing law enforcement and responder's recognition of persons with a mental disorder and employing crisis de-escalation techniques and finally providing education to students and families regarding resources available on campus and in the community. In order to implement the goals of this initiative, REACH members will select a mental health curriculum to train UIPD first responders, employ a department mandated training log for officers which includes all training required per Illinois law to be run annually end of year, track attendance at trainings for security guards and student patrol officers internally via spreadsheet, use surveys and/or pre- and post-tests to determine training efficacy and record the number of educational sessions and collaborative meetings in the REACH Community Outreach spreadsheet. It is estimated that the number of unduplicated individuals to be served with the funding for mental health awareness training provided by REACH will be 350 for Year 1, 600 for Year 2, 850 for Year 3, 1000 for Year 4 and 1250 for Year 5, with a total to be served at or more than 4050 individuals over the lifetime of the project.
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).
