MAPS 4 PROJECTS ON MENTAL HEALTH, ADDICTION, DIVERSION HUB AND HOMELESSNESS MOVE FORWARD
Oklahoma City’s successful MAPS 4 campaign included several projects that will continue to expand the community’s focus on justice-related issues. Of the 16 projects included in the MAPS 4 package, the following are ones that will positively impact the county’s justice system:
While both new projects move forward, an existing project that works closely with CJAC is also receiving funding for a permanent location. The Diversion Hub, operating out of a temporary location for two years, provides justice navigators and case managers to guide clients through the justice system to keep them out of incarceration. A justice navigator’s focus is keeping a client in compliance with pre-trial release conditions and/or probation requirements if they are already further into the court process. A case manager works with the justice navigator to identify what other needs the client has to move them toward stability and self-sufficiency. Each of these projects on their own would be helpful to efforts to divert people from jail incarceration. However, combining all these new projects will build much needed infrastructure to ensure the fifth recommendation of the Vera Institute becomes a reality: Expand meaningful diversion program options, focusing on people with mental illness and substance use disorders.
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$45 million for mental health and addiction facilities and services.
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$19 million for the Diversion Hub.
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$50 million-plus to reduce homelessness.
Additionally, another project to fund youth centers will provide future prevention efforts to assist youth in healthy lifestyle choices, redirecting them away from incarceration. MAPS 4 implementation progressed in FY22 with several projects going out to bid and moving closer to launching. The mental health component consists of two new mental health crisis centers at a cost of at least $12 million. The first mental health crisis center went out for bids in 2022 and an operator is expected to be selected in the fall of 2022. Both mental health crisis centers will include urgent recovery beds as well as crisis stabilization beds which will allow additional time for crisis services to be provided. The Restoration Center project, at a cost of approximately $22 million, will focus on the overlap in people with both mental health and substance abuse addiction needs, including detox services. The Restoration Center is on the same timeline with the first mental health crisis center for the fall of 2022. To assist both the mental health crisis centers and the Restoration Center, MAPS 4 also includes at least $7 million for temporary housing for people transitioning out of the facilities. However, this $7 million for temporary transitional housing is in addition to the more than $50 million project specifically focused on homelessness and the city’s adoption of the Housing First model.
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