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Strategy 4: Evaluate and identify adult and youth criminal justice and diversion programs that
address social, mental, emotional and behavioral health issues that lead to criminal behavior.
Action A: Collaborate with Workforce Development and other community service providers to provide effective
programs focusing on job training, employment skills and opportunities, safe housing, transportation and other support
services that assist ex-offenders in establishing and maintaining a crime-free life.
Action B: Provide after-care and re-entry programs and procedures that incorporate treatment and monitoring of
ex-offenders.
Action C: Further develop a “deflection and diversion” crisis response model for addressing mental health issues that
includes housing, mobile response, training for law enforcement and first responders, and a crisis intervention system.
Action D: Maintain and develop enhanced law enforcement programs targeted to reduce violence and prevent gang
development and activity.
Strategy 5: Develop programs, education, and outreach focused on mental, emotional and
behavioral health, misuse of drugs, prevention of gangs, and prevention of other criminal
activity, in direct alignment with the relevant strategies and actions under the County’s “Build
Healthy, Resilient, and Inclusive Communities” Strategic Goal.
Action A: Research grant opportunities and develop programs to address illicit drug use in Lake County.
Action B: Evaluate and develop improved methods to provide sustainable mental, emotional, and behavioral health
services through collaboration with service provid ers in the community.
Action C: Promote and lead information-sharing initiatives amongst law enforcement to address gang-related crime.
Action D: Continue to research grants and develop local funding partnerships for enhanced treatment in specialty
courts.
Strategy 6: Provide comprehensive training to enhance and reinforce the shifting role of law
enforcement from “warrior” to “guardian” of the community.
Action A: Train all officers and first responders in community outreach, voluntary compliance, de-escalation techniques,
and force as a last resort.
Action B: Develop metrics for specific crimes and delinquent behaviors that will allow the County to measure the
outcomes/impacts of policing and first response when carried out in this manner.
PERFORMANCE METRIC
Work with local law enforcement agencies to train 40% of
Lake County law enforcement officers in certified crisis
intervention team training (CIT) by 2019.
Certified Crisis Intervention Team Training
40%
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0
40%
40%
17%
17%
2016
2019
Baseline: In 2016, 17% of Lake County law enforcement officers
were certified in crisis intervention team training, including 88 of
197 Lake County Sheriff’s Officers.
“Before the Crisis Intervention
Training, I would go to calls and see
that someone had a mental health
issue, but I had no idea what we
could do for them. Now, we’re able
to communicate with people a lot
better, and they’re noticing on the
street that we’re doing things
differently. We’re changing how we
do business.”
- Lake County Sheriff’s Deputy Katie Gordon
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