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32 <br /> The grant provides for the creation of a Community Care and Diversion Response (CCDR) team <br /> coordinated by the CJRD that will enhance law enforcement diversion and collaboration for <br /> individuals with serious mental illness. The grant funds immediately provide for a 1.000 FTE <br /> position in the CJRD to serve as the Mental Health Diversion Coordinator. Additionally, the grant <br /> funds four (4) social worker positions that will operate in each of the major law enforcement <br /> agencies in Orange County: the Orange County Sheriff's Office, the Chapel Hill Police <br /> Department, the Hillsborough Police Department and the Carrboro Police Department. Finally, <br /> this grant will fund two (2) therapeutic positions that will work at Chapel Hill's Freedom House <br /> Recovery Center—a mental health clinician and a peer support specialist. These positions will be <br /> hired and managed by the independent agencies. Approval of this request will authorize 2.000 <br /> County FTE's, time-limited until September 2025 — a 1.000 FTE Mental Health Diversion <br /> Coordinator in the CJRD starting this fiscal year, and a 1.000 FTE Social Worker in the Orange <br /> County Sheriff's Office to start in the next fiscal year. <br /> The purpose of the CCDR team is to increase and expand pre-arrest and post-charge diversion <br /> opportunities, clinical care, peer support and person-centered case management for individuals <br /> with serious mental health issues. The grant will formalize another collaboration between law <br /> enforcement agencies, the CJRD and Freedom House that will serve individuals at risk of criminal <br /> legal system involvement. <br /> The CCDR team will focus specifically on diverting the growing population of individuals with <br /> serious mental illness and co-occurring disorders from arrest and incarceration. The CJRD <br /> Coordinator will provide supervision to the social workers embedded in the agencies and training <br /> on trauma-informed mental health interventions to the law enforcement agencies. This <br /> coordinated and collaborative team approach between clinicians, social workers, peer support <br /> and law enforcement officers will ensure greater awareness, communication and consistency in <br /> the law enforcement and treatment response to individuals with serious mental health issues who <br /> frequently interact with our law enforcement agencies, courts and behavioral health care systems. <br /> Approval creates the following grant ordinance in the Multi-Year Grant Fund, outside of the <br /> General Fund: <br /> Police and Mental Health Collaboration ($1,193,745) - Project# 71378 <br /> Revenues for this project: <br /> Current FY 2022-23 FY 2022-23 <br /> FY 2022-23 Amendment Revised <br /> Grant Revenue $0 $1,193,745 $1,193,745 <br /> Total Project Funding $0 $1,193,745 $1,193,745 <br /> Appropriated for this project: <br /> Current FY 2022-23 FY 2022-23 <br /> FY 2022-23 Amendment Revised <br /> Grant Expenditures $0 $1,193,745 $1,193,745 <br /> Total Costs $0 $1,193,745 $1,193,745 <br /> Caitlin Fenhagen, Director of the Criminal Justice Resource Department, introduced the <br /> item. She reviewed the background material from the agenda. She said this does not replace <br />