Vice President for Clinical Services CODAC Health Recovery & Wellness, Inc. Tucson, Arizona
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this activity, participants will:
Describe steps involved in building a cross agency partnership between treatment and law enforcement.
Identify steps to overcome cultural and mission differences of perception between behavioral health and law enforcement.
Define strategies to address challenges to creating collaborative partnerships necessary to establish integrated patient-centered programs that connect individuals to substance use treatment.
This hot topic discussion addresses the actions taken in building an effective collaboration between law enforcement and treatment to create a common mission, common language, and a single vision to maximize patient outcome. Starting at the leadership level with program and process reviews, progressing to the direct service staff and street level officers, we will discuss actions to improve implementation and participation by both police and treatment staff to maximize outcomes.
