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Consider recommendations regarding acceptance of Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) Award of $5,988,511.00 million for Prop 47 Crisis Intervention, Diversion and Support (CIDS) program, Fiscal Year (FY) 2019-2022, as follows:
a) Approve, ratify and authorize the Public Defender, or designee, to execute the multi-year grant agreement with the BSCC accepting $5,988,511.00 for the County of Santa Barbara to provide crisis intervention, diversion and support to individuals at three main points of entry: field law enforcement contact (arrest), jail booking, and prior to arraignment for the forty-five month period of August 15, 2019 or upon State approval, whichever is later, through May 15, 2023 (BSCC Grant Agreement);
b) Approve and authorize the Public Defender, or designee, to execute subsequent reports pursuant to Exhibit A, Section 5 of the BSCC Grant Agreement or make immaterial amendments that do not change the amount or substantive terms of the BSCC Grant Agreement;
c) Direct Public Defender staff to work with various stakeholders, including the County departments of Behavioral Wellness, County Executive Office, District Attorney, Probation and Sheriff; the Superior Court; local community-based organizations to create a program to divert individuals with a history of serious mental illness (SMI) and/or substance use disorder (SUD) from the criminal justice system to trauma-informed crisis stabilization and comprehensive mental health and SUD wraparound services;
d) Authorize the Public Defender, or designee, to amend the BSCC Grant Agreement to add a liaison position with no change to the amount of grant funds and return to the Board with a Salary Resolution after the amendment has been approved by the BSCC;
e) Designate the Public Defender as the programmatic lead, and the Public Defender and Behavioral Wellness as co-leads, for the implementation of the BSCC Prop 47 CIDS grants funds; and
f) Determine that the above actions are gov...
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