Title
Joint resolution authorizing the Lake County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) to accept a grant from the Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County for the Jail High Utilizer Diversion and Health Engagement Project and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $100,000.
Staff Summary
• The LCSO has applied to participate in the Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County’s $100,000 grant process to fund the second year of the Jail Diversion Case Management (High Utilizers) Program.
• The LCSO 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 High Utilizers Program will continue to provide extensive case management services to the communities listed above and use that case management to divert these individuals from the criminal justice system.
• The expected outcomes of this program, associated with extensive case management with the high utilizers, will remain the same, and is considered a stop gap measure while a sustainable funding source is sought.
• The creation of this program will require the LCSO to extend the contract it has with Nicasa to provide intensive case management services that meet grant requirements and will be required to provide and meet performance measurement and reporting standards.
• There is no match required. The LCSO will provide in-kind services for this grant in the form of staff time spent by the Community-Based Corrections and the Business Office. It will also include Information Technology (IT) support for TriTech/Service Point, report writing and generation.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the LCSO is recognizing the need to address re-arrests of high jail utilizers; and,
WHEREAS, the LCSO applied for a grant in the amount of $100,000 from the Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County; and,
WHEREAS, the High Utilizers Program seeks to reduce incarceration of low-income or minority communities; as well as protected class individuals while continuing to provide intensive case management services during the 12-month grant period to 30 persons; and
WHEREAS, the LCSO serves as the lead agency on this grant; and will continue year two of this program as a stop gap measure, while researching various resources that might serve as a sustainable permanent funding source.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the County Board chair, the LCSO, and the Lake County Treasurer are hereby authorized to accept the Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County Jail High Utilizer Diversion and Engagement Project award and approve an emergency appropriation in the amount of $100,000.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on June 12, 2018.