From: 'clinical_gaze' <mhca@batstar.net>

To: behave@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sat Nov 20 10:54

Subject: [behave] INN-07 Postvention Meeting

Yesterday I attended the initial meeting of the Learning Advisory Committee (LAC) for the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) Innovations project #7, representing MHCA/SJCC. Allison (who represents the Coalition for Justice and Accountability (CJA)) was unable to attend. De-Bug had a representative and the County Patients Rights (MHAP) head attorney Jim Raphael also participated.

INN-07 concerns "compassionate follow-up" for police 9-1-1 interventions. Currently nobody is following up, whether or not anybody is 5150'd or suffers violence. This project is for two years and allots $900K for developing an approach for follow-up (unless family/neighbors "opt out"). "Postvention" is how it has been dubbed, in local mental health speak.

For the instances where Bich Cau Tran was shot (2003) and Daniel Pham (2009), there were multiple 9-1-1 calls, yet no follow-up. This project is intended to be a "partial remedy" for the police practices in that sort of instance. We found out at the meeting that data will be gathered on family/neighbor responses to the "follow-up" performances. Jim brought to people's attention that data on "police behavior" is explicitly NOT part of the project.