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Joint resolution accepting the MacArthur Foundation Grant Innovation Fund, a contract with NICASA Behavioral Health Services, Round Lake, Illinois, for jail diversion case management, and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $50,000.
Staff Summary
* The Lake County Sheriff's Office applied to participate in the Urban Institute Innovation Fund Competition hosted by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
* The Sheriff's Office has been awarded an Innovation Fund Jail Diversion Case Management Grant in the amount of $50,000.
* The Sheriff's Office serves as the lead agency on this grant, which will work to reduce the incarceration of persons who are from low-income or minority communities; as well as protected class individuals.
* The Jail Diversion Case Management Program will provide extensive case management services to the community listed above to divert these individuals from the criminal justice system.
* Grant funds will be used to provide intensive case management services to 30 individuals identified as high jail utilizers.
* The services that will be provided will foster health and literacy among high jail utilizers, with the goal of eliminating or reducing the re-arrest of these individuals, and providing them with what they need to become self-sufficient.
* The Sheriff's Office identified NICASA Behavioral Health Services, Round Lake, Illinois, as the organization that is more qualified to provide the intensive case management services that meet grant requirements and will be required to provide and meet performance measurement and reporting standards.
* Pursuant to Article 6, Section 102, the Purchasing Agent convened an ad hoc review group that approved a bid exemption on the basis that there exists a long standing, successful relationship with NICASA Behavioral Health Services for professional services.
* This resolution authorizes professional services contract with NICASA Behavioral Health Services to provid...
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