Oklahoma County Misdemeanor Diversion Expansion

The Misdemeanor Diversion Expansion is a community-based diversion from prosecution program that expedites the delivery of substance use and co-occurring disorder (SUD/COD) treatment at SAMHSA Sequential Intercept 3: Jails/Courts. Grant funds will be used to hire key personnel to increase the participant capacity of MDP and enable long-term developmental planning of diversion programs in Oklahoma County. The Oklahoma County Criminal Justice Advisory Council (CJAC) provides residents of Oklahoma County with effective, efficient criminal justice reform. There are two intended subrecipients of grant funds for the proposed project: the Diversion Hub and Red Rock Behavioral Health Services. Beneficiaries of services provided through the Misdemeanor Diversion Expansion are individuals with active misdemeanor cases in the Oklahoma County District Court who are at high risk for a substance use or co-occurring disorder. The project aims to reduce justice involvement and correlated overdose risk for this population through the delivery of social and treatment services and the development of data-driven responses to gaps in services. Primary activities include case management to increase the capacity of misdemeanor diversion; case management to identify candidates for diversion and support MDP graduates; treatment case management that enables the provision of Medication Assisted Treatment; Recovery Support/Treatment Case Management that outreaches to individuals struggling with treatment engagement; data collection and analysis that identifies critical relationships between risk factors, program outcomes, and gaps in services; and development management to apply data to improve program structure and create infrastructure for future diversion programs. 450 cases will be diverted from traditional prosecution and managed by an MDP case manager. 450 cases will be screened for MDP qualifications and assisted after MDP graduation. 350 cases provided with on-site SUD/COD rehabilitation/treatment case management services. 200 clients provided with on-site SUD/COD therapeutic treatment services. Copies of data analysis and developmental reports will be supplied to the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The requested $1,600,000 will be budgeted between the following allowable uses of Category 1 funds: Realtime data collection (15%), Pre-booking or post-booking treatment alternative-to-incarceration programs (60%), and Embedding social workers, peers, and/or persons with lived experience at any intercept of the Sequential Intercept Model (25%).