I heard all about it.

I said we're discussing your call the broken era city council meeting to order.

We have invocation by Pastor Scott Moore.

Hi.

Heavenly Father, we come before you uh today and we thank you so much for uh the beautiful city uh that we live in.

Uh Father, we thank you for this time of year, even though it's cold outside.

Uh we are blessed again just to be in a wonderful, wonderful community.

Father, we thank you for leaders uh who uh truly care uh about the community, and so we ask that you would continue to be with them today as they work through the agenda, uh, that you would give them wisdom, uh, that you would give them uh sound mind as they make decisions uh that will affect our entire community.

We ask that you would be with each and every citizen who will be a part of this time together as well, uh, that they would be able to speak clearly and they would uh continue uh to have an attitude of of uh of peace as they as they share the things that they are concerned with and as they uh uh do their best to communicate their hearts with this group of leaders.

Again, we just ask for your guidance uh during this time.

Uh we believe that we are the kind of community that we are because of the guidance uh that you have given us, and we just ask that you would help us to continue uh to follow that direction.

In our Lord's wonderful name we pray.

Amen.

All right, roll call.

Excuse me.

Pickle Green here Ford here parks here, Wimpe.

Here please stand and join Counselor Ford for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Attention, salute, pledge.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God individual with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you, man.

Are there any items to be removed from the consent agenda?

I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda.

Second that motion the motion and a second roll call.

Item seven is public hearings, appeals, presentation, recognitions, and awards 7A presentation and discussion of the crisis response and care link program update.

Chief Stewart and Major Garrett.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council, Mr.

Spurgeon.

Hope you're all having a good evening tonight.

As you may remember, a couple of years ago, we came, thank you.

We came up here and uh gave you a short presentation.

Uh we were tasked with doing something about what we were continuing to see reference our mental health issues in the city with some of our citizens, uh, opioid issues and things of that nature.

And the police department and the fire department, uh, Chief Stewart and I got together and we came came up with different uh plans for our organizations.

One for the police department, which is our crisis response team, and their care link navigation program for the fire department.

I'm gonna talk to you a little bit about uh an update to our crisis response team, and then Chief Stewart will talk about the fire department's uh initiative.

So one of the things we want to talk about is why we have two different programs, and the reason for that is what we realized, what we we really had some different clientele.

We thought there was going to be a lot more uh crossover between those that we dealt with at the police department versus those that we dealt with uh at the fire department.

What we learned is that we actually didn't have as much crossover as we were thinking.

Uh police department deals with a lot of issues of homelessness and some veteran issues, uh opioid abatement, and a lot of what we do is if you may remember was crisis mitigation when those crises are actually happening.

And a lot of what the fire department does is deals with less visible forward-facing issues, uh, and they'll talk a little bit about more of that.

Uh now on our program, we also sometimes have to do emergency protective custody is when we actually take someone into custody and have to go get them treatment, um, and that's a forced order, and we're gonna talk a little bit about that also.

Uh our crisis response team recently adopted a mission.

The Broken Arrow Police Crisis Response Team works in partnership with mental health professionals to deliver compassionate and effective responses to individuals in crisis.

We connect community members with the services and support they need to enhance their safety, well being, and quality of life, and that's really what we do.

Uh again, you may remember back uh the last time we were here, we talked about we really only had two buckets to go with before we uh started these two programs.

It's kind of either they went to jail if they were dealing with the police department or a hospital if they were dealing with the fire department.

Now, what we've done is we've created these programs to actually get those uh citizens that need help services that they need, those wraparound services to give them other options to actually stop that cycle of crisis.

So some of the calls that we deal with at the police department, obviously mental health calls, uh, substance abuse services and calls that deal with uh opioids, sometimes methamphetamine, things of that nature, uh domestic disturbances, homelessness, as uh you may remember we spoke of uh last time we were here.

Veteran services is also something that we're very passionate about.

We oftentimes see that there's often a lot of crossover between some of these mental issue mental health issues and people that are veterans, and there's actually some businesses and some corporations that actually help us get services directly to veterans, and there's a lot of places that do that, and that's something that our crisis response team really focuses on a lot when we see that there's a veteran component to actually get them other services because there's some services that are specifically for veterans.

And then we also talk about connections to care and counseling, and that's that you know, back end navigation that we do where we're doing follow-ups with these people as opposed to just going out there one time, dealing with their problem at hand and then leaving.

We actually are able to, our team has a care coordinator and an officer paired in the vehicle together.

And not only do we deal with whatever crisis they have at the time, but we also have some back end navigation where we do follow-ups, try to make sure they're getting their counseling appointments or if they need uh home placement or job placement to really get those services to them.

Uh the two teams again are officer and a care coordinator.

Team one works Monday through Thursday from 7 a.m.

to 5 p.m.

And we actually moved our team two a little bit from the last time we were here.

They were also working Monday through Thursday.

We've moved them to Tuesday through Friday, so we have coverage five days of the week now instead of just four.

And those services run from seven to five on the day daytime, and then uh from noon to ten, you may remember we started a four shift and we moved that second team to the four shift.

What do you guys do on the weekends?