ReRespond

strategies to reduce mass incarceration through healthcare and housing innovations

SERVICES

Areas of expertise and focus

Legal Competency Populations

Forensic Assertive Community Treatment

Harm reduction based/infused programming

Person-directed care and program design

Trans justice

Leadership and staff development

Grant solicitation and response support

Behavioral health best-practice program design

Addressing health and resources rather than punishment

Jail diversion for competency populations (unable to assist in own defense)

Housing first approaches

Whole person care healthcare reform

Medicaid managed-care approaches for criminal legal system involved

Prosecutorial diversion programs (Intercept 1, 2)

Local government approaches to reducing jail use

Housing first approaches to interim/shelter as jail diversion or step-down

Problem-solving courts

Jail reentry best practices

Optimal government role in ending mass incarceration

Political landscape assessment for systems change

Non-profit organizational change centering equity

Ensuring lived experience in program design and operation without tokening

Human-centered approaches to Jail ‘high utilizers/super utilizers’

Working with  media in political and difficult systems change contexts

ReRespond brings deep experience in

    • Strong social justice leadership grounded anti-racist intersectional approaches and a continuous learning and improvement framework.
    • Effective local government and non-profit leader, versed in both/and system reform efforts connected to community and in community.
    • Deep systemic analyses of the criminal legal system, behavioral health and homelessness from practice and policy lenses.
    • Systems level boundary spanning expertise in harmonizing  across government, non-profit/behavioral health, healthcare, homelessness response and community orgs to support individuals stability in community settings.
    • Systems change strategist related to harm reduction, trauma responsive, racially just, and person-centered/directed practices across the continuum of social services, with a focus on moving supports upstream.s

OFFERINGS

Program Design

ReRespond can assess, recommend and tailor program design to meet your needs that incorporates these best practices:

 

  • Motivational Interviewing, Trauma Responsive Care and Harm Reduction 
  • Forensic/Assertive Community Treatment, intensive case management, intensive care management, care coordination
  • Physical and behavioral health care integration
  • Incorporation of forensic/behavioral health peers and those with lived experience in program models
  • Tailored roadmaps for Criminal legal system coordination to promote access to services, community supports, family supports and housing (at the points of contact with law enforcement, jails, criminal courts and probation) with specific expertise in law enforcement assisted diversion (LEAD), prosecutorial (pre-filing and post-filing diversion).
  • Interim housing / shelter program phase in alignment with Housing First principles as part of a continuum to longer term permanent supportive permanent independent housing

Innovative Systems Design

  • Criminal legal system and behavioral health coordination and co-creation of programs to serve individuals who have a history of jail cycling
  • Housing models to scale and build out long-term, with interim/step-down options to ensure capacity
  • Funding community driven organizations of people who create communities of care by and for
  • Political analyses and consensus building to start, grow and sustain cross-sector and collective impact approaches
  • Continuous improvement (LEAN) system design to ensure forward movement and an ethic of “fumbling forward” to get work moving and innovations started.

Grant Writing & Other

  • Expertise in drafting Request for Proposals (RFPs), Requests for Interest (RFI) and Requests for Qualifications (RFQs)
  • Experience in drafting responses to RFP, RFI and RFQs from both a local government and non-profit position
  • Program Policies and Procedures
  • Drafting of operational protocols or other program and initiative level documents
  • Leadership development through staff training, mentoring, development and support.

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