Title:
Budget Amendment (Revenue Increase) - Criminal Justice Services (CJS)
Summary
ACTION:
Recognize, receive and appropriate for FY2019, $37,048.00 in funding from Cardinal Innovations Healthcare to support local jail diversion efforts related to the Stepping Up Initiative
Staff Contact: Sonya L. Harper, Director, Criminal Justice Services
Presentation: No
BACKGROUND/JUSTIFICATION:
This item requires official approval. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has provided Managed Care Organization (MCOs) funding to apply towards jail diversion strategies in their catchment areas that are tied to the Stepping Up initiative. Stepping Up is a national NACo initiative geared towards addressing behavioral health in jail populations across the country. CJS currently chairs the Mecklenburg County Stepping Up efforts and conducts a significant amount of jail diversion work. As such, we plan to partner with CMPD and utilize funds to develop a technology platform that will serve as a behavioral health repository for Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) officers. Having such a platform will provide CIT officers the capacity to record and share information with other CIT officers on behavioral health encounters in the field. Cardinal is Mecklenburg County's MCO.
PROCUREMENT BACKGROUND:
N/A
POLICY IMPACT:
N/A
FISCAL IMPACT:
Increase in revenues and associated expenditures of $37,048.