Mention, Substance Abuse, beds that are available for the clients that are coming out of custody. So that we can keep them from recidivism. We can keep them from failing to. We have to make sure the major chordates. We do boston we go to their cameras. We know their street names and so forth to get these guys back to court. However, these clients are homeless. The majority of them are homeless. We also need beds available for these clients and we take them out of custody to my there are few shelter beds. We do work with the clients are currently on probation because probation does have housing. However, we see a short a shortage of beds treatment beds, Mental Health beds, and as well as housing. That is a great problem for our office and the caseworkers and the clients because once we can stabilize our client of Mental Health, their prescription medication, get them into a Substance Abuse program, or into housing while they are waiting and we are working with them, theyre more likely t
That would go over with other inmates trying to sleep in their dormitory setting. So, they need single cell or two person housing. We need treatment space, both for individuals treatment that meet compliance so private space where the clinician can sit with the client and hear the clients concerns, work with the client that is visible to the custody staff but the custody staff cant hear whats being said. Its also very important that we group rooms. Thatll be what we call therapy rooms so that the individual can roam around. Socialize, when theyre in jail, and learn how to socialize, learn how to cooperate and be in treatment so they can be successful when theyre in community. People that are housed in direct supervision jails generally do better. Jail is the huge risk for suicide and i dont know how many of you have looked at county jails three and four but there the old vail bar jails, though, it kind that you see in the movies. Its hard for the deputies to view inmates are housed in
From the Sheriffs Department. Good morning, supervised on Jill Robinson dir. Of Behavioral Health services. My prior position was that of the director of Behavioral Health services for the jail. I was in the jail for about 20 years. In the jail, there is approximately 1117 of the individuals that have a serious Mental Illness, that being defined as someone with a psychotic disorder were a major Mood Disorder like bipolar. About a month ago we did a oneday snapshot to try to get an exact percentage, and that date it was 14 , which was around 170 individuals. One thing to note, people with Mental Illness tend to stay in a jail longer than those in general population. It is due to a multitude of reasons. Things like the individuals may struggle to understand the court proceedings. They may struggle to work with their attorney in their own defense. They also are frequently homeless. They also dont have the resources to get out on bail or they dont meet the criteria to get on their own reco
Start, i just was notified there is an overflow room for members of the public that are not able to find a seat here. That dark individuals there and we call people from Public Comment we will make sure give enough time to get here from the overflow room. Thank you. Good morning, supervised my name is will leong on the seal of the semper cisco pretrial diversion project just a moment to give you an overview of the organization, we basically have three tracks of services. The first track is case is that, due to service and get interviewed and placement, and thats really to the District Attorneys in road Court Program and cases that work off of our combined some of you are familiar its budget 20, around for many years. Roughly 6000 people go through that program. The second track is our diversion programs, which is the version and restitution. It unveils about 1200 cases a year and basically, its participating in programs in prosecution on an annual basis for quarter of Million Dollars i
Illness, that 14 , to have a Substance Abuse disorder. About 80 of the general population has a Substance Abuse disorder. If courts are going to incarcerate individuals that have mental dullness, the facilities need to be safe, they need to be humane, and they need to have places that people can be treated. They need housing areas that are safe, dormitory housing doesnt work for folks that have Mental Illness. Imagine someone thats having a manic episode that may stay up all night talking loudly, singing loudly, cleaning their so imagine how that would go over with other inmates trying to sleep in their dormitory setting. So, they need single cell or two person housing. We need treatment space, both for individuals treatment that meet compliance so private space where the clinician can sit with the client and hear the clients concerns, work with the client that is visible to the custody staff but the custody staff cant hear whats being said. Its also very important that we group rooms.