AUTHORIZING PRE-BOOKING DIVERSION PILOT PROGRAM CONTRACT WITH THE WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Committee Status: 
Approved
Budget Status: 
Budgeted
Decision Impact: 
Routine
FTE Impact: 
Yes
Funding Source: 
Grant

Purpose

This resolution authorizes the Sauk County Health Department to contract with The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) to receive and carry out a Pre-Booking Diversion Pilot Program grant in the amount of $87,000 in funds for the period of performance beginning 04/01/2020 and ending 03/31/2021. The Pre-Booking Diversion Pilot Program Grant supports staff salaries and provides qualifying participants alternatives to traditional criminal justice processing. The Sauk County Justice, Diversion, and Support (JDS) program received this three (3) year grant in 2018. This is a renewal of the existing grant.

Background

Background:    This resolution authorizes the Sauk County Health Department to contract with The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) to receive and carry out a Pre-Booking Diversion Pilot Program grant in the amount of $87,000 in funds for the period of performance beginning 04/01/2020 and ending 03/31/2021. The Pre-Booking Diversion Pilot Program Grant supports staff salaries and provides qualifying participants alternatives to traditional criminal justice processing. The Sauk County Justice, Diversion, and Support (JDS) program received this three (3) year grant in 2018. This is a renewal of the existing grant.
The Health Department/JDS will continue the Sauk County Pre-Booking Diversion-Substance Use Diversion and Support (SUDS) Program to increase access to treatment and other supportive services for non-violent offenders struggling with addiction (with a focus on opiate addiction) to divert them from traditional criminal justice system processing. This will increase participant’s health through access to treatment, and increase their ability to be productive members of our community. Contact with the program and access to treatment will also reduce future criminal activity, increasing community safety in Sauk County.
The SUDS Program supports the major goals of the County Board-approved Stepping Up Initiative (Resolution #5-16) to decrease number of those incarcerated, decrease recidivism, and increase referrals to behavioral health services.

Resolution Files: 
File 2020_prebookingdiversiongrant_resolutionv2.docx
File 2020_prebookingdiversiongrant_resolutionv3.docx
Budget Status (Other/External Sources): 

This is budgeted in the approved 2020 budget.

Resolution Body

  1. RESOLUTION NO. _____ - 2020

 

AUTHORIZING PRE-BOOKING DIVERSION PILOT PROGRAM CONTRACT WITH THE WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Background:    This resolution authorizes the Sauk County Health Department to contract with The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) to receive and carry out a Pre-Booking Diversion Pilot Program grant in the amount of $87,000 in funds for the period of performance beginning 04/01/2020 and ending 03/31/2021. The Pre-Booking Diversion Pilot Program Grant supports staff salaries and provides qualifying participants alternatives to traditional criminal justice processing. The Sauk County Justice, Diversion, and Support (JDS) program received this three (3) year grant in 2018. This is a renewal of the existing grant.
The Health Department/JDS will continue the Sauk County Pre-Booking Diversion-Substance Use Diversion and Support (SUDS) Program to increase access to treatment and other supportive services for non-violent offenders struggling with addiction (with a focus on opiate addiction) to divert them from traditional criminal justice system processing. This will increase participant’s health through access to treatment, and increase their ability to be productive members of our community. Contact with the program and access to treatment will also reduce future criminal activity, increasing community safety in Sauk County.
The SUDS Program supports the major goals of the County Board-approved Stepping Up Initiative (Resolution #5-16) to decrease number of those incarcerated, decrease recidivism, and increase referrals to behavioral health services.

Fiscal Impact: [ ] None   [X] Budgeted Expenditure    [ ] Not Budgeted

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Sauk County Board of Supervisors, who met in regular session, that the Sauk County Board of  Supervisors authorizes the Sauk County Health Department to enter into a one year contract with the Wisconsin Department of Justice, effective April 1, 2020.

 

For consideration by the Sauk County Board of Supervisors on March 17, 2020.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

 

BOARD OF HEALTH

 

________________________________             _______________________________

DONNA STEHLING, Chair                             GLEN JOHNSON

 

________________________________             _______________________________

JOHN MILLER                                                SCOTT VON ASTEN

 

________________________________             ________________________________            
DIANE REINFELDT                                       KIANA BEAUDIN

 

________________________________

KEN CARLSON

                                                                                                           

Fiscal Note:  Receipt of the expenditure of $87,000 will be split between the County’s 2020 and 2021 fiscal years.  These funds were budgeted in the existing budget.

Information System Note:  No information systems impact.

 

Requested Board Review Date: 
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
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