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O&E Collaborative Mission: The mission of the collaborative is to provide prompt response to individuals experiencing a behavioral health issue, assess the needs of afflicted individuals, protect life and property, make community based resource referrals where appropriate, document the contact and provide pertinent information for case follow-up in order to reduce the frequency of calls for service for behavioral health related issues by facilitating treatment and housing for those in need. O&E Collaborative Activities: • HCA will assign a behavioral health professional to SAPD, for up to 40 hours per week (weekly schedule may vary). The behavioral health professional staff may ride -along with SAPD as needed. • SAPD intends to normally utilize the HCA personnel as a resource to patrol, but mayutilize the HCA personnel in other divisions or bureaus so long as that use is consistent with collaborative objectives. • HCA will assist officers in responding to events, reviewing event histories, and review of SAPD direct referrals to determine if enhanced services would be of benefit. • HCA will provide on-going behavioral health related training to Santa Ana Police Department personnel. • HCA will track the process and use data from this project to evaluate the collaborative and the effectiveness of a combined police/clinician response. • HCA will assist SAPD in identifying individuals with a behavioral health need. • HCA and SAPD will establish a protocol that guides appropriate use of HCA personnel. O&E Collaborative Goals: • Provide outreach and engagement and offer resources to help end homelessness. • Provide behavioral health clients with the appropriate care and linkage to other resources as needed in a dignified manner. • Prevent unnecessary incarceration or hospitalization of behavioral health clients. • Provide crisis intervention and evaluation with compassion and care. • Allow police officers to return to service sooner. • Reduce the amount of repeat calls for service. O&E Collaborative Procedures: The SAPD will assign at least one officer to be the department's primary liaison to the collaborative. The liaison officer will work collaboratively with HCA personnel in an effort to identify individuals who: Require assistance in behavioral health outreach, housing resources, alcohol and drug abuse recovery/detox, older adult services, and veteran services. The team will work together to match the homeless individual with to the appropriate resource worker. Require behavioral health information and/or enhanced HCA services. The officer will also facilitate other police services as necessary in order to assist HCA personnel in contacting and working with identified persons.