Specifications include, but are not limited to: Requirements of the LEAD program. Address and reflect the priorities of the community in which the program exists; Provide intensive case management for individuals with whose unlawful behavior stems from unmet needs related to substance use, mental health challenges, or extreme poverty; Prioritize temporary and permanent housing that includes individualized supportive services, without preconditions of drug or alcohol treatment or abstinence from drugs or alcohol; Facilitation and coordination with community resources focused on: a. Overdose prevention; b. The prevention of infectious disease transmission; c. Housing, employment, and public assistance; Facilitation and coordination with community resources providing: a. Physical and behavioral health services; b. Medications for the treatment of substance use disorders; c. Twenty-four hours per day and seven days per week response to law enforcement for arrest diversions; and d. Prosecutorial support for diversion services. HCA will require data collection to be completed as part of all award grants, and cooperation by successful applicant jurisdictions with any evaluation project put in place by HCA for funded Washington LEAD efforts. a. The Application should demonstrate how the applicant plans to capture all metrics identified in the applied work plan. b. HCA reserves the right to require that successful applicant uses a dedicated data collection solution and further negotiate with ASA’s on the applied data collection process submitted with the work plan.
