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Reinvestment Grant#RFA06H16GS1 Working Draft Intercept 1 — Law Enforcement/ Emergency services Intercept 2 — Initial detention / Initial court hearings Intercept 3 —Jails/courts Intercept 4— Re-entry Intercept 5 — Community corrections / Community support It was determined for the startup of IRCMHC that the best intercept point to affect change would be post booking at Intercept 2; and, at any time thereafter, through Intercepts 3, 4, and 5. Intercept 2 became the focus, because: (1) established collaborations and cooperation already existed with agencies that were involved with mentally ill afterthey had been arrested; and, (2) the personnel who were interacting with the mentally ill after the booking process were better trained to identify and divert the mentally ill from the traditional court setting. Therefore, IRCMHC Program intercepts arrested persons primarily at jail bookings, initial detention and initial hearings, and through attorney referrals. 3.8.5.3.3.7 How law enforcement will assess their current process at intercept points, capacity, and how they intend to implement or expand diversion initiatives(e.g., processes,training,etc.); and Law Enforcement is interactive with potential MHC participants at Intercept points 1 and 2; therefore, will assess the individuals and implement or expand diversion initiatives in the following ways: Intercept 1 — Law Enforcement/ Emergency services: Indian River County Sheriff's Office would like to increase their number of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) trained officers to help them decrease the number of arrests of individuals with mental illness. CIT trains officers to understand mental illness and provides them with tools needed to assess, de-escalate and refer/transport people experiencing crisis to stabilization centers. The predictive impact with having more officers CIT trained is: 1. Crisis response is immediate. 2. Officers are better trained and educated in verbal de-escalation techniques. 3. Officer and consumer injuries during crisis events decline. 4. Underserved consumers are identified by officers and provided with care. 5. Increase in pre-arrest diversion of mentally ill from the criminal justice system. Indian River County currently has 267 law enforcement officers trained and certified, the break down includes: Indian River Sheriffs Office (185); Vero Beach Police Department (50); Sebastian Police Department (28); and, Fellsmere Police Department (4). One of the goals with this project will be to provide CIT training for 30 law enforcement officers each year of the grant; adding a total of 90 additional CIT trained officers in Indian River County. Mobile Crisis Team (MCT) can be utilized at both Intercept 1 and Intercept 5 to divert mentally ill from the criminal justice system. *See Intercept 5 for details on our local MCT. Intercept 2— Initial detention / Initial court hearings: Page 15 of 33