We will utilize Prezi to demonstrate best practice models to effectively address homelessness. This includes how homelessness affects quality of life for your community, how to effectively engage and dialogue with your homeless to best connect them to services, how to incorporate clinical services in addressing the issue, how to leverage public and private partnerships to bring about lasting change, and finally how to use media to control the narrative and share the efforts your agency is taking to address this important quality of life issue. The Prezi will include; factual data, real life case studies, and videos highlighting success stories. Time will be set aside at the end for a question and answer session.

Smaller Agency Track session recording made possible by Engility.

Each year, nearly two million jail bookings involve persons with mental illness. It's no secret that mental health impacts law enforcement response. Providing comprehensive curriculum is time intensive and costly. Many have little to no available resources to support training and devoting personnel. This presentation highlights how one region struggled to address a need for increased training and how they overcame challenges to realize their goal. By partnering, agencies successfully increased the availability of CIT training setting a standard of excellence in police response to mental health. Presenters will discuss challenges faced along the way, overcoming barriers and strategies that proved critical to successful implementation.

Smaller Agency Track session recording made possible by Engility.