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Whatcom County task force plans February sequential intercept mapping workshop to sharpen diversion strategies

Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force and Law and Justice Council · November 24, 2025
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Whatcom CountyIPRTF will hold a 1.5-day Sequential Intercept Mapping workshop in February to produce an operational product members can use to update the implementation plan, identify process barriers and prioritize high-leverage handoffs that cause people to be lost in the system.

Dean White, the presenter for the Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force, framed the county's Sequential Intercept Map (SIM) as both a structural inventory and a workflow tool aimed at identifying where diversion opportunities can occur.

"The sequential intercept model was used as a framework, back in 2022, to lay the foundation for the kinds of projects that would be proposed," White said, describing three SIM tables: services currently sufficient to divert people,…

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