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1 <br /> ORD-2024-019 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: June 18, 2024 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 8-w <br /> SUBJECT: Approval of Budget Amendment #11-B to Fund the Mobile Crisis Team Pilot <br /> (CARE) with Grant Funding Awarded to Alliance Healthcare <br /> DEPARTMENTS: Emergency Services, Criminal <br /> Justice Resource <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Survey Submitted to NC DHHS by Alliance Kirby Saunders, 919-245-6123 <br /> With Scope of Services and Funding Kim Woodward, 919-245-6133 <br /> Requested Caitlin Fenhagen, 919-245-2303 <br /> Email from Alliance Healthcare with Notice <br /> of Award <br /> Draft Agreement between Alliance <br /> Healthcare and Orange County <br /> Year-to-Date Budget Summary <br /> PURPOSE: To approve Budget Amendment #11-B to provide grant funding for the two-year <br /> Mobile Crisis Pilot: the Crisis Assistance, Response and Engagement (CARE) Team, in <br /> collaboration with Alliance Healthcare and the Town of Chapel Hill. <br /> BACKGROUND: Orange County in collaboration with the Chapel Hill Police Department, is <br /> conducting a two-year-long Mobile Crisis Pilot program with the mission to provide a more <br /> appropriate response to certain 911 calls. The Crisis Assistance, Response and Engagement <br /> (CARE) Team consists of a Crisis Counselor embedded in the 911 Call Center and a mobile team <br /> that includes a Crisis Counselor, an Emergency Medical Technician and a Peer Support <br /> Specialist. The unarmed Team will respond immediately in lieu of law enforcement to behavioral <br /> health and low level, non-violent offense 911 calls as designated by the Chapel Hill Police <br /> Department and the 911 Call Center. The program seeks to increase therapeutic interventions <br /> and direction to resources while ensuring the safest and best immediate response. <br /> The two-year Pilot phase will initially serve only Chapel Hill 911 calls and includes an evaluation <br /> of the Pilot being conducted by UNC's School of Government Criminal Justice Innovation Lab. <br /> The CARE Team was established in March 2024 and launched officially in collaboration with the <br /> 911 Call Center on May 6, 2024. Between the CARE Team's official start on May 6t" and June <br /> 3rd, the mobile team has responded to 213 events and 57 individuals who would have otherwise <br /> required a law enforcement response. The goal for the CARE Team is to be operational county- <br /> wide in Fiscal Year 2025-26 with the participation of all law enforcement agencies. <br /> The CARE team Fiscal Year 2023-24 funding was previously approved as a joint commitment <br /> between the County and the Town of Chapel Hill. Fiscal Year 2024-25 funding was recommended <br />