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<br />NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the above and mutual covenants and conditions <br />hereafter set forth, Orange County and the Town of Chapel Hill hereby agree as follows: <br /> <br />1. Term of the Agreement. The parties desire to create this CARE Team for an initial <br />period of two years, during which time the University of North Carolina, by and <br />through their School of Government’s Criminal Justice Innovation Lab, will analyze <br />all relevant call data to evaluate the efficacy of service delivery of the program; <br /> <br />2. Scope of Services. <br />a. Both parties agree that the CARE Teams will be equipped to triage, assess, <br />and respond remotely and in-person to behavioral and mental health, <br />substance use, Intellectual/Developmental Disability and minor nuisance <br />offense calls in Chapel Hill and Carrboro that are non-emergent and do not <br />require a law enforcement response or could benefit from a co-response; <br />b. Both parties desire to have the Town’s Crisis Counselors embedded in the <br />9-1-1 Call Center and to be members of the mobile CARE Team that will <br />respond to calls in Chapel Hill and as of 10/1/25, Carrboro, for the duration of <br />the Agreement; <br />c. The County agrees to provide the Community EMT employees to serve as <br />members of the CARE Team for the duration of this Agreement; <br />d. The Town agrees to employ and assign one Crisis Counselor to be <br />embedded in the 9-1-1 Communications Call Center, to serve as a conduit to <br />resources for those experiencing crisis and to serve on the CARE Team, and <br />be cross-trained as a certified Telecommunications Call-Taker; <br />Docusign Envelope ID: 2B64F13F-D3C1-4B59-8FAE-211039A32C82