Deputy Chief Kendall Adams presented the department's nonfatal-shooting victim-services program and the DOJ CBIP grant that funds it.

Adams said the program began after the department identified a service gap for nonfatal shooting victims during a technical assistance review with Project Safe Partnership. "We took the victim assistance model and applied it to specifically nonfatal shootings," Adams said, describing partnerships with community-based organizations (CBOs), hospital-based intervention teams (HVIPs) and a data study led by Dr. Lauren McGee. Adams said ARPA funding initially supported the pilot and that a later DOJ grant (approximately $1.6 million) extended services and provided guaranteed subrecipient amounts for CBOs.

Adams presented outcome data from the grant period, saying shootings and homicides trended down and clearance rates rose: "Our clearance rate is up 90%. And our clearance rate for nonfatal shootings is about 40%," Adams said in slide commentary. Adams cautioned against attributing the entire decline to the advocates alone but said clearance rates improved while advocates were in place. He said grant dollars will fund three advocate positions through the grant period (to 2027) and that the department will pursue other funding sources to retain those positions after the grant expires.

Board members asked about adding more CBOs; Adams and OPHS staff said they plan to run RFPs through the grant-management system to expand the pool and that staffing constraints had previously limited that approach. There was no vote on this informational item.