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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