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From: Kittrell, Dorian
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2017 4:36 PM
To: Bennett, Robin; BOS District 2; Connelly, Bill;Cook, Holly; Gullickson, Caroll; Kirk,
Maureen; Lambert, Steve; Sweeney, Kathleen;Taber, Stephanie;Teeter, Doug;Test, HC;
Wahl, Larry
Cc: Clerk of the Board; Honea, Kory; Bordin, Steven; Ramsey, Mike; Kennelly, Scott;
McCracken, Shari; Kim, Sang
Subject: Memo from Dorian Kittrell - Re: Mobile Crisis Team Pilot Project
Attachments: 171127 BOS memo.doc
Supervisors,
Please see the attached memo for you information.
Thank you
Dorian Kittrell, Director
Butte County Behavioral Health
3217 Cohasset Rd.
Chico, CA 95973
Phone: (530) 891-2850
Fax: (530) 895-6549
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DATE: November 2.7, 2017
TO: Beard of Supervisors
FROM: Dorian Kittrell
RE: Pilot Mobile Crisis Response Team with Chico Police Department
Supervisors,
The Department of Behavioral Health (DBH) has been in discussions with the Chico Police
Department (CPD) to initiate a pilot mobile crisis team program. This program would entail two DBH
staff to work as police dispatched mental health counselors to assist in evaluating individuals for
behavioral health needs, including evaluation for 5150 status. This collaborative effort will be a one
year pilot to determine the effectiveness of providing mental health assessment and services
alongside police in the field. After one year, both agencies will review the outcomes of this
endeavor to determine further programming efforts.
For almost a year now, we have had a collaboration with the CPD in working alongside their Target
Team for outreach to the homeless. This has been successful in getting difficult to engage persons
into services. Through this new program we will be providing a mobile crisis counselor to respond to
mental health calls as requested by CTPD via police radio dispatch. CPD is providing radio training,
as well as other field work and safety training. They have also donated a car to DBH as part of the
collaboration. DBH will assign two-full time staff to this pilot program which will run 7 days a week
from approximately 8:30am to 6:80pm.
We are finalizing a non-financial, inter-agency MOU in December and then training and operational'
planning will be undertaken in January. The goal is to roll out services for the project on, or around,
February 1, 2018. The Behavioral Health Board will be informed over the next two weeks so this
information will become more widely known in the community. I wanted to make sure you had this
information in case any questions or comments are brought to you from your constituents.
Of course, as always, please call me with any questions.
cc: Clerk of the Board, Shari McCracken, Kory Honea, Mike Ramsey, Sang Kim, Steve Bordin,
Scott Kennelly