Chris A.

“ My experience includes:
* Collaboration project by the Houston Police Department, City Of Houston Health Department, and MHMRA working with mentally ill consumers with high recidivism rates identified by the Houston Police Department Mental Health Unit.
* CCSI is a progressive strategy designed to engage individuals with serious mental illnesses who are in a perpetual state of crisis. These individuals utilize...

My experience includes:
* Collaboration project by the Houston Police Department, City Of Houston Health Department, and MHMRA working with mentally ill consumers with high recidivism rates identified by the Houston Police Department Mental Health Unit.
* CCSI is a progressive strategy designed to engage individuals with serious mental illnesses who are in a perpetual state of crisis. These individuals utilize police services and other emergency services on a habitual basis resulting in excessive calls for service and needless law enforcement encounters. The main objective of this pilot program was to reduce and minimize overall police contacts through intensive case management. The long term benefits of this program for the police department would be redirected resources which can be more appropriately utilized by patrol officers. In terms that are meaningful to executive management, this translates to potential savings in operational costs associated with manpower, redirected patrol services to address other criminal activities or calls for service, and possibly reducing the probability of officers being involved in a situation where deadly force may be used.
* Provided intense case management to stabilize consumers with varied resources.
* Developed, collaborated, and maintained relations with various community entities including Personal Care Homes, Partial Hospitalization Programs, and Intensive Outpatient Program.
* Consulted in the redesign of several outsource providers providing mental health related services
* Initiated Emergency Detention Warrants with the Harris County Mental Health Court and collaborated with C. I. R. T. (Crisis Intervention Response Team) to secure the safety of the consumer and community based on criminal behavior due to non-compliance of treatment.
* Initiated and advocated for clients in obtaining Social Security and community resources since lacking years of treatment and proper documentation.
* Received the 2010 International Association of Chiefs of Police Community Policing Award.
* Placed 3rd in the 2010 Herman Goldstein Award.

More ”