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JPOP calls for stronger data, timelines and community input as county readies behavioral care center
Summary
Committee members pressed for clearer timelines, a public data dashboard, expanded civilian and lived-experience participation, and follow-up analyses as they plan a behavioral care center and implementation priorities for 2026.
LEDE: The Justice Project Oversight and Planning Committee on Nov. 20 pressed county staff to improve public tracking of implementation timelines, expand data reporting and increase community and lived-experience participation as the county advances planning for a behavioral care center and other justice-project items.
NUT GRAF: Members reviewed a quarterly progress summary and pressed for more accessible timelines (Gantt-style milestones), a public-facing data dashboard and routine reporting on diversion and workforce outcomes. Committee leaders said a community engagement workshop would be held that evening in Ferndale and that the committee aims to finalize an action plan at its Dec. 18 meeting.
TIMELINE AND REPORTING: Marty and other staff reviewed the quarterly summary drawn from the County Executive’s full reports. Several members asked that implementation milestones be made public so the community can see whether projects are meeting schedules and why any slippage occurred. Steven said he had not seen Gantt-style timelines publicly and encouraged the committee to request them from the Executive’s Office; Peter agreed that implementation-plan updates should include timelines for each project.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, BCC PLANNING: Peter reviewed the behavioral care center (BCC) model and said no final decisions about location or final design have been made. Staff and members emphasized the role of the three planned community engagement workshops — the first was scheduled that evening at the Pioneer Pavilion — to gather input on services and site decisions. County staff said behavioral-health and jail studies pending later this year would provide inputs for final decisions.
CAPACITY, WORKFORCE AND EVALUATION: Members discussed a behavioral-health-and-corrections workforce survey that the epidemiology team is reviewing. Staff said a 1–2 page handout and presentation of preliminary workforce findings are forthcoming and encouraged the committee to review results when available. Dean and others called for staffing and data resources to improve measurement and to enable evaluation of diversion programs and BCC operations.
LIVED EXPERIENCE AND MEMBERSHIP: Several members urged stronger, consistent representation of people with lived experience — including people from populations shown to be overrepresented in jail — and asked staff to fill a vacant lived-experience seat and a youth seat. The committee’s current lived-experience seatholder has stopped attending, and staff said administrative steps are underway to vacate and refill it.
NEXT STEPS: The committee set its next meeting for Dec. 18 (in-person), with goals to discuss data-dashboard development and to finalize an action plan for 2026. Staff asked committee members to submit written feedback on the IPRTF year-end report in the coming days so it can be incorporated before formal approval in December.
ENDING: Holly O’Neil closed by thanking presenters and members, reminding participants about Thanksgiving, and adjourned the meeting.
