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Supervisors forward DA grant to fund mental-health clinician for crisis intervention program
Summary
The Budget and Finance Committee voted to forward a resolution authorizing the District Attorney’s Office to accept a $167,021 grant from the Superior Court of California to support Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program activities, including funding a master’s-level clinician for the mental health diversion clinical team.
The Budget and Finance Committee on Sept. 3 voted to forward to the full Board of Supervisors a resolution authorizing the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office to accept and expend a $167,021 grant from the Superior Court of California to support the Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program for the period Sept. 1, 2024, through Aug. 31, 2026.
The grant will fund a two-year assignment of a master’s-level mental-health clinician to participate on the District Attorney’s existing mental health diversion clinical team, provide consultation to the office’s legal staff, and support program activities including a gun relinquishment component and efforts to improve access to treatment for people diverted from prosecution. Monifa Willis, chief of staff for the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, said the initiative “looks to reduce individuals having access to guns” and to “improve access to treatment” by reducing gaps and delays in diversion services.
The department told supervisors the clinician will help ensure proposed treatment plans consider public safety and that legal staff will receive clinical consultation on appropriate levels of care. Committee members raised no additional questions. No members of the public spoke on the item.
The committee’s motion to forward the resolution to the full board carried on a 3-0 vote.
