SAFE Program Council Liaison

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Prior to starting any new initiatives regarding the homeless, you must stop encouraging homeless people to come to Sebastopol.

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This program is essential to addressing critical community needs with a more compassionate, effective, and fiscally responsible approach

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Can a city the size of Sebastopol (with one foot in bankrupcy court) support a CAHOOTS/SAFE/MST program?

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“The only reason that CAHOOTS is as successful as we are at keeping folks away from jail or out of the hospital is because we have a network of other resources in our community to rely on,” Black said.

“If we didn’t have those other resources available, we would just be helping cycle people through the hospital, and folks would still be going to jail. If a community like Honolulu is really considering mobile crisis (response) inspired by CAHOOTS, there also really needs to be an evaluation of what resources are lacking in the community for folks in crisis.”