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Grass Valley pilot proposed: a peace officer who is a licensed clinical social worker to connect people to services
Summary
A proposal seeks CCP funds to pilot a specially trained peace officer–clinician in Grass Valley for upstream case management, pre-arrest diversion and service linkage; members raised questions about billing, HIPAA/CJIS data sharing and geographic scope and asked for further detail before approving funding.
Paul Litchfield presented a proposal to fund a specialty assignment: a peace officer who is also a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) to perform case management, outreach and pre-arrest diversion in Grass Valley. Litchfield described the role as intended to reach people ‘‘as far upstream as possible’’ and said the pilot could run one to three years while the county measures outcomes and explores sustainable funding.
The proposal and rationale: the presenter framed the role as a way to reduce recurring low-level arrests and repeated brief bookings by…
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