City Council

(35) 25-0358 AD HOC COMMITTEE ON UNARMED CRISIS PREVENTION, INTERVENTION, AND COMMUNITY SERVICES REPORT relative to instructing various departments to report on strategies and the steps necessary to co-sponsor workshops to increase education about pathways to becoming crisis workers for the City's outreach programs to individuals experiencing homelessness and unarmed crisis response teams. Recommendations for Council action, as_ initiated by Motion (Hernandez for Blumenfield - Harris-Dawson): 1. INSTRUCT the Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department and the Youth Development Department to report on strategies and the steps necessary to co-sponsor workshops to inform individuals about educational and career pathways to becoming crisis workers who would support the City's outreach programs to individuals experiencing homelessness and unarmed crisis response teams. 2. INSTRUCT the Economic and Workforce Development Department (EWDD), with the assistance of the City Administrative Officer (CAO), Chief Legislative Analyst (CLA) and the Personnel Department, to report with an analysis of how other jurisdictions support education and workforce development for unarmed crisis response teams, including strategies to build career pipelines, promote community awareness, and sustain a qualified workforce, as well as ways to inform and strengthen the City's Crisis and _ Incident Response through Community-Led Engagement (CIRCLE) program, Unarmed Model of Crisis Response (UMCR) program, and other similar co-deployment and county programs. 3. INSTRUCT the CAO to collaborate with the County Department of Mental Health to identify opportunities for joint education and workforce development initiatives that directly support the recruitment, training, and placement of professionals into unarmed crisis response roles and ensure alignment across City and County efforts. Fiscal Impact Statement: Neither the CAO nor the CLA has completed a financial analysis of this report.