Title
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 provide Jail Diversion Case Management in a not to exceed amount of $50,000.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office recognizes the need to address re-arrests of high jail utilizers; and,
WHEREAS, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office applied for and has received an Urban Institute Innovation Fund Jail Diversion Case Management Program Grant in the amount of $50,000; and,
WHEREAS, the Jail Diversion Case Management Program seeks to reduce incarceration of low-income people and communities of color, women, individuals with serious mental illness and individuals who identify as LGBTQ by providing intensive case management services during the 15-month grant period to 30 persons; and
WHEREAS, the Sheriff’s Office serves as the lead agency on this grant; and
WHEREAS, the grant must be formally accepted by Lake County and the necessary emergency appropriations and approvals made and
WHEREAS, 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 for professional services.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the Chairman of the Board, the Lake County Sheriff, and the Lake County Treasurer are hereby authorized to accept the MacArthur Foundation Grant Innovation Fund Jail Diversion Case Management Award in the amount of $50,000 and enter into a professional services agreement with NICASA Behavioral Health Services of Round Lake, Illinois; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FUTHER RESOLVED, that an emergency appropriation for the grant in the amount of $50,000.00 is hereby authorized as follows:
Amount Fund
$50,000.00 101-3001110-45330 (Grants - Other)
Amount Fund
$50,000.00 101-3007110-79440 (Miscell Contractual Services)
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on February 14, 2017.