Nurse asks timelines on ATI, family treatment, ICM, and non-secure

In terms of the timeline for policies, so the bullets that I have here is expanding alternatives to detention, expanding family-based treatment, launching the intensive community monitoring, which I'd love for you all to detail what that means exactly.

And the ICM Connect expanding non-secure detention.

Specifically, I was very curious about the youth continuum of care.

So where are we on these in terms of getting them off the ground?

Yes, so the two ATI programs are mentioned in that, Families Rising and Exalt.

These are the programs we heard from the court stakeholders were most useful for reducing specifically the secure detention population.

Their contracts are both with the comptroller right now, so they will be registered within four weeks.

They'll be backdated to October 1st, and the providers are already in the process of hiring.

We expect with both of those contracts, they'll be bringing in new young people for these new tracks starting November 16th for both of the ATI programs.

And the family-based treatment?

The family-based treatment is one of the ATI programs, Families Rising, a functional family therapy program.

Okay, and the launching of the intensive community monitoring.

This is DOP.

Begin the Intensive Community Mind ICM Connect on November 16th.

We're going to be beginning a pilot in the Bronx.

We've already met with some of the Bronx stakeholders with regards to that.

We have the staff that's available.

We're starting to have some implementation meetings.

We're going over policy.

practice, how we're going to start accepting those young people.

So we are working behind the scenes.

It may not be in public, but we're working behind the scenes to be prepared and ready to take those young people because we understand that it's a crisis and we are here as partners to work in that effort.

And this release said it was for 100 to support additional, an additional 150 young people.

Yes, for those that are in secure detention from Horizon and Crossroads.

And so what would be the total then for everybody?

Is it just that additional funding is specific for that $150,000, or is that on top of any other?

So for the ICE Intensive Community Monitoring Connect, it's going to be 150 young people.

We want to keep those caseloads to about 10 per PO because we want to make sure that it's intensive, that we're intentional, and that we are engaging those young people as well as the parents, right, and making sure that they are

getting what they need as well.

But I just want to emphasize that we also still have ICM, regular intensive community monitoring, that is available for family court and youth.

part and we may be a little bit over capacity, but we still take kids.

We don't turn anyone away and that is available as an alternative for the courts.

And we have staff that's identified and we continue to restructure and bring it back to where it was.

It's available and if the courts for those young people that are ROR or that are at arraignment, it's available.