With $5 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding, Cleveland hopes to double the size of its Crisis Intervention team – which sends specially trained officers and mental health professionals to 911 calls where someone is having a mental health crisis.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb is seeking to double the size of a pilot program that integrates mental health professionals into 911 responses.
With $5 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding, Cleveland hopes to double the size of this team for five years. The program currently consists of one officer and one licensed clinician for each of the city’s five police districts, Wayne Drummond, Cleveland’s chief of police, said during a Wednesday City Council committee meeting.
The bulk of the requested funds, $3.75 million, would pay the $75,000 salaries of 10 licensed social workers. Other large chunks of the request would fund for three years the $135,000 salary of a “public safety/mental health strategist,” $380,000 for 10 unmarked vehicles and $260,000 to pay the salary of a specially trained mental health dispatcher, according to city documents.
Officials are still figuring out what implementation of this policy would look like, should it be approved. There are three routes the legislation could take. One would be using the social workers to respond alongside police, another would be to use the social workers to respond instead of police for certain situations, and the third would be a blend of the two approaches, said Karrie Howard, Cleveland’s Department of Safety director.
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