20250103-121252-01

FY25Q1 Engagement Activities

Met and corresponded with grantee 7 times between October 1-December 31, 2024 on the following dates:
10/9/24 - Meeting
10/9/24 - Email follow up
10/23/24 - Email sent about PTACC
11/12/24 - Email sent about RHAPSODI funding
12/3/24 - Email sent about JCOIN funding
12/18/24 - Meeting
12/19/24 - Email follow up
Summary of Successes
Receiving good referrals for their recovery court program
Finalized recovery court program policy
24 participants in the LEAD program
Approximately 40 referrals and most came from law enforcement
Moved offices to a location more centrally located downtown near the community they serve
Hired a LEAD coordinator, 2 case managers, and 1 peer
Expanded to working with 2 other police departments
Summary of Challenges
Staffing
Have had to stop accepting referrals due to capacity issues
Once the new case managers and peer are onboarded in January they will be able to start ramping up referrals and case load again
Housing - lack of landlord buy-in and availability in general
Bureaucracy
Staff turnover
New county manager
County grant manager just retired
Legal department is down to 1 person - takes weeks for a contract to get reviewed if it does at all
The Community Support Services department used to manage the opioid settlement funds and all programs related to opioids and was eliminated
3 active participants passed away
Summary of Resources Provided
AHP_Milwaukee_County_Family_Drug_Treatment_Court (1).pdf
Problem-solving courts1 arose from the adult drug
court model established by Miami–Dade County in
1989. In this uniquely collaborative model, defendants
with addiction to substances participate in a substance
abuse treatment regimen that involves a drug court
team and community providers. Approximately 40
percent of the now nearly 4,000 problem-solving
courts across the country are adult drug courts, but
an increasing number of specialized dockets focus on
opioids, veterans, DUI/DWI, mental health, reentry,
co-occurring disorders, homelessness, tribal healing to
wellness, and family treatment.
Judge Charles McGee in Reno, Nevada; Judge John
Parnham in Pensacola, Florida; and Judge Nicolette
Pach in Suffolk County, New York, were the first judges
to adapt the adult drug court model to the family
court bench.2 The animating principle of the family
treatment court model is to serve “the best interest
of the child,” with the objective of family reunification
or maintenance whenever possible, or termination of
parental rights if necessary, and parental recovery as
a goal in all cases. Such courts are also referred to
as family dependency treatment courts, family drug
courts, dependency drug courts, and family wellness
courts, all of which fall under the umbrella of family
treatment court.
Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP)
A Successful Collaborative Court Model:
Milwaukee County’s Family Drug
Treatment Court
Jane Pfeifer, program director at the national Children
and Family Futures (CFF), which co-authored the
Family Treatment Court Best Practice Standards,
observes: “For two decades, CFF has provided family-
centered training and technical assistance to family
treatment courts. All address parental substance
use; many also address parental and family members’
mental health and even primary health care. Of all
the designations, ‘family treatment court’ perhaps
best captures the breadth of issues that these courts
now address through family-centered services and
supports. Recovery doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It
happens within the context of family—whether the
family of origin, the extended family, or the family of
community.”
Robyn Ellis, accompanied by her grandmother and
daughter, delivering her FDTC graduation speech in 2014.

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RHAPSODI Funding Opportunity.pdf
Request for Proposals
Reimagining Health and Public Safety Overdose Initiatives
(RHAPSODI)
2024-2025
Date of release: October 28, 2024
*Applications are due by 5:00 pm E.T. on December 3, 2024*

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Bel Air LEAD Policies and Procedures_Redacted.pdf
BEL AIR POLICE DEPARTMENT
Special Order 2020-05
BEL AIR OPIOD OVERDOSE REDUCTION EFFORT: Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD)
From: Date: July 20, 2020
Distribution: All Personnel Expires: Ongoing
Purpose
The Town of Bel Air is expanding the “Opioid Overdose Reduction Effort” which initially focused
solely on reducing the number of heroin/opioid overdoses and deaths through the Drug
Abatement Response Team (DART). The expanded programming will attempt to intervene with
individuals and families prior to an overdose occurring but after a low-level criminal offense has
been committed through the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program.
Utilizing the LEAD program, police officers exercise discretionary authority at point of contact to
divert individuals to a community-based, harm-reduction intervention for law violations driven
by unmet behavioral health needs. In lieu of the normal criminal justice system cycle -- booking,
detention, prosecution, conviction, incarceration -- individuals are instead referred into a
trauma-informed intensive case-management program where the individual receives a wide
range of support services, often including transitional and permanent housing and/or drug
treatment. Prosecutors and police officers work closely with case managers to ensure that all
contacts with LEAD participants going forward, including new criminal prosecutions for other
offenses, are coordinated with the service plan for the participant to maximize the opportunity
to achieve behavioral change.
Service: Individuals will qualify for participation in the LEAD program, as long as the specified
crime was committed in the town of Bel Air, regardless of individual’s residency in the town of
Bel Air, although preference is given to Bel Air town residents, depending on capacity to serve
by LEAD providers.
Core Principles
1. Officer Discretion: Law enforcement officers are the most informed and key decision-
makers, closest to the community being served.
2. Harm Reduction Philosophy: Establishes quality of individual and community life and well-
being, not necessarily cessation of all drug use as the criteria for successful interventions and
policies. Understands drug use as a complex, multi-faceted phenomenon that encompasses a
continuum of behaviors from severe abuse to total abstinence and acknowledges that some

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Albany Police Department Policies and Procedures_Redacted.pdf
- Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD), G.O. No. 1.2.20Page 1
ALBANY, NEW YORK
POLICE DEPARTMENT
LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTED DIVERSION (LEAD)
GENERAL ORDER NO: 1.2.20
Issue Date: February 16, 2017 Effective Date: April 1, 2016
Revision Date: December 1, 2016 CALEA: 1.1.3
Volume 1: Organizational Structure Chapter 2: Law Enforcement Role and
Authority
Distribution: All Personnel NYSLEAP: N/A
Issuing Authority: Acting Chief Page: 1 of 14
PURPOSE: The purpose of this policy is to establish policies and procedures regarding the
department’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program. The LEAD
program allows police officers to utilize their discretion to divert low level
offenders, whose real issues are drug dependency, mental illness, or
homelessness, away from the criminal justice system and into services that the
criminal justice system is not equipped to provide.
POLICY: It is the policy of the Albany Police Department to maintain and actively
participate in the LEAD program, as well as to train all sworn personnel in the
principles of harm reduction and LEAD.
DEFINITIONS: Policy Coordinating Group (PCG) – Policy Coordinating Group (PCG) means
the signatories of the Memorandum of Understanding, including the Albany
Police Department, District Attorney’s Office, the Mayor's Office, the County
Executive and Departments, the Albany County Sheriff, Central District
Management Association, the Center for Law and Justice, and the LEAD
National Support Bureau who are responsible for reviewing and providing
feedback on the referral and diversion protocols for LEAD candidates, approving
RFPs for service providers and evaluators, selecting providers and evaluators,
reviewing and providing feedback on periodic reports from the Operational
Group, making criminal justice and human services system data available for
comparison and evaluative purposes, and providing policy guidance and
administrative oversight for the LEAD program’s operation and evaluation.
Operational Workgroup (OPW) – Operational Workgroup (OPW) means a
group of stakeholders, including APD's Subcommittee, who are responsible for
developing and amending the referral and diversion protocols, for staffing
program participants’ cases per the Protocols, and for providing periodic reports
on resource utilization and participants’ progress to the Policy Coordinating
Group.
APD Subcommittee – APD Subcommittee means a group of Albany Police
Department personnel who are responsible for developing the Operational
Robert Sears
Acting Chief of Police
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Philadelphia PAD Policy_ Protocol_ and Procedures (Final Draft Ed.pdf
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Philadelphia Recovery Community Center, 1701 W. Lehigh Avenue #6,
Philadelphia, PA 19132
Final Draft December 06, 2017
The Philadelphia Recovery Community Center (PRCC), a site of the Council
for Southeast Pennsylvania’s recovery support services program,
Pennsylvania Recovery Organization-Achieving Community Together (PRO-
ACT), will be the service hub for the Police Assisted Diversion (PAD) pilot
program in the 22nd & 39th Police Districts.
PRO-ACT’s Certified Recovery Specialists (CRS) will serve as case managers
for participants’ harm reduction pathway to recovery. The CRS will also
provide linkages for PAD participants to community mental health clinical
care, substance use disorder clinical care, and recovery support services.
PRO-ACT will maintain client records for evaluating, prioritizing, and
coordinating participant care.
In addition to the program-specific services, PRO-ACT currently provides on-
site trainings, recovery activities, and recreational events that will be
integrated into the PAD program offerings.
Introduction
Philadelphia Police Assisted Diversion
PAD Services: Policy, Protocol and Procedures

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Webinar - Prosecutor-Led Diversion: Best Strategies for Working With Persons With Substance Use Disorder
Article - A Successful Collaborative Court Model: Milwaukee County's Family Drug Treatment Court
JCOIN Rapid Innovation Grant (J-RIG) Program
https://www.ojp.gov/funding/financialguidedoj/iii-postaward-requirement…
A Way Out Memorandum of Understanding.pdf

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Leon County CCN MOU.pdf
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Cumberland County OHH-ROW MOU.pdf
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Brief - Expanding Peer Support and Supporting the Peer Workforce in Mental Health
Training - Effective Integration of Peer Recovery Support Services Training Series: A Course for Program Administrators
Summary of Suggestions for further TA/next steps
Continue regularly scheduled TA engagement and coaching
Connect them to Abt Global in Jan.
Connect them to Altarum in Jan.