CESSA - Region 4 Committee Meeting Approved Minutes 04/23/2024

Community Emergency Services and Support Act (CESSA) Region 4 Advisory Committee

Meeting Minutes- Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 10:00-11:30 via Zoom

Meeting Minutes - Approved by Members 06/18/2024

  • Welcome & Call to Order
    • Call meeting to Order by Julie Brugger (Co-Chair) at 10:10 am
  • Attendees
    • Deborah Humphrey, Jane Nesbit, Kelly Ann Jefferson, Steven Johnson, Brittany Pinon-Becker, Jodi Russell-Baum, Erin Hazen, John Nowack
  • Absent
    • Breona Hawkins, Megan Black, Layla Simons, Timothy S. McClain, Dave Fellows, Patrick Feldhake, Joseph J. Harper, Cindy Wagner, James Hengehold, Randy Randolph
  • Guests:
    • State representative Brenda Hampton - UIC (HUB)
  • Open Meetings Act
    • Julie Brugger read and notified meeting is being recorded.
  • Approval of Minutes
    • March 19, 2024- not approved; Quorum not met.
  • State Updates- Brenda Hampton
    • There will be a Joint RAC Co-chair and SAC meeting on May 12, 2024. There will be a forum to be held June 11, 2024, it is titled Behavior, Health Crisis Continuum in Illinois. This form is being hosted by the UIC Crisis Hub and begins at 9:00 a.m.
  • Updates on SAC Subcommittees- Julie Brugger
    • Training plans for 911, 988 and 590 were discussed. They went over frequently asked questions concerning such.
      • Would certification be required?
      • How often would these be required?
      • Will guidance be associated with the training?
      • Will they be put together by each separate entity or one that is utilized for the state as a whole?
      • Will there be cross-training between the programs?
      • How will the training be provided?
      • Will these be 24/7 programs?
      • When is training expected and needing to be completed?
      • Who is responsible for each region's training?
    • Additionally, recognizing that training coordination is especially important across all the entities, many of the trainings seem repetitive. How would we eliminate the duplications? There are many more questions, all of these are being reviewed and responses are being developed. The final training plans will come to the statewide advisory committee for approval.
  • Updates for Technology and Data
    • Developing recommendations for Technical Systems and Infrastructure necessary to facilitate and automate contact transfers including implementation, the need to determine elements and capabilities for this system, which requires some amount of monitoring and evaluation of the system, integration, and interconnectedness. Examples would be perhaps the transfer of information about those in crisis and then which pieces of information are going to be readily available in these situations. Possibly the ability to have access to the availability of a bed registry to show where there are available beds for crisis stabilization, which places have mobile dispatch ready, where those mobile dispatches are, how quickly they can arrive.
  • Summit Planning for RAC 4
    • Agenda items are being included are identifying a pilot site for protocol changes, like what PSAP is willing to be a pilot site to begin to implement the changes once we get them and begin to see how this works. Such as, transferring the calls to 988 and then the responses in the community and looking at the effectiveness and the availability of them; essentially, identifying a place to where we can start these protocol changes and see how they're working. Then to recognize needs in the beginning of the process, like identifying the transferring of the phone calls from 911 to 988. Recognizing needs in the middle of the process like transporting clients, connecting clients with needed services, and recognizing needs at the end of the process; the follow up or continued services for the community members. The communication between the service lines and then next steps of how do we create what we need? Other things to consider, do we want this to be a summit where all the people who may be involved in this, interested parties and stakeholders in this process? Do we want them all in one place at one time, for our whole region? Should we do a series of hyperlocal summits where we can divide that up however we need?
  • Comments-
  • Deborah Humphrey- In a meeting we with the Crisis Response group that they have with OSF Hospital, they feel they have really made some inroads. They have a Co-responder model now with the Alton Police Department and the ER; they are doing training with them. They have decided to continue to meet because they want to keep working in their municipality, the Alton area. Chief of Police is in attendance as well as their Mobile Crisis Response. Having all the stakeholders for the municipality would be a good point and county officials there as well. There is such relevance in municipality by municipality, every community has its own culture, its own people. I would envision if we had a summit that each municipality could have a table, where they could be in discussion, having someone like Alton come and just talk about what they have done so far and what they are drawing together. State representatives or those that are politically invested in the committees have resources that are untapped that we don't realize that is out there, funding resources too through representatives. In the transportation area, a grant was written, and a vehicle was obtained; they are picking up people and doing it earlier, not just when people are in crisis. Having this transportation makes sure they get to appointments and to areas of need so that we are not only seeing them in crisis. I think after we present some of these ideas and what is working in other places and having some breakout groups with the actual municipalities; having discussions about what tools they could use or what other ideas that they have to make their system work. Also, what resources do they have within their own? Maybe we could develop some leading questions for each table, the same questions for each group. Possibly for the people you want to have speak, outline just three or four things that you want them to present and with the work groups, some overarching things for discussion.
  • Steve Johnson- I think if you have a summit you need to show the "wins" and show what it is working. The Southwestern Illinois Law Enforcement Commission, SILEC regularly host training at different departments; they would be a great resource to help put together the summit and they would be able to get the message out to EMS, Chiefs, PSAP leadership and fire departments. Steve Scott Williams is the director of SILAC. They are housed at old Lindenwood and have a large auditorium, there are a lot of resources. In mentioning Alton's grant, whoever they obtained the grant through, would be a huge benefit in their attendance. Chestnut Health Systems has mental health specialists that ride on the Metro train and there is a special grant that goes through Bi-State Metro and St Clair Transit. Maybe if they had 15 or 20 minutes talking about how that's working, what do they do and some of their successes that could indirectly relate towards showing people that some of these things were trying to do works. East St Louis has the living room program now, so maybe they could have a 10-15-minute talk as well.
  • Deborah Humphrey- Choices are doing deflection on the streets also. There are three regional for our Region 3. I know the last presentation from Robin Robinson, she said they only have a caseload of eight. I actually connected them with Collinsville in Madison County because they have about 20 homeless individuals and about eight of them are problematic, so they are going to try and work with them to help and do some deflection work there.
  • Jane Nesbit- I think in each of those groups, you're going to have to be very detailed about what you want them to bring to the meeting and maybe to turn it in advance. You could make a slide and they could touch base on all the bullet points that you're asking them to address; possibly a set of questions that you wanted or answers that you wanted a group to bring.
  • Next Meeting Date: May 21, 2024, meeting cancelled. Next meeting, June 18, 2024.
  • Public Comment- none to post
  • Adjournment- Quorum not met to vote.