The seattle community assisted response and engagement (CARE) department proposes to implement the expansion of the operations of the CARE team throughout the city of seattle

The City of Seattle has been awarded a $1,926,000 Project Grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under the Congressionally Recommended Awards program (CFDA 16.753) to expand the operations of the Seattle Community Assisted Response and Engagement (CARE) team throughout the city. The project will fund the hiring of 18 additional full-time community crisis responders and 3 supervisors to supplement the existing CARE team. This will allow the CARE team to provide crisis response services to a broader range of 911 calls across all neighborhoods in Seattle, ensuring minimal response times and delivering supplies, transportation, and resource navigation to address the basic needs of community members experiencing behavioral health or related challenges. The award period is from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027.

Project activities include increasing the teams staffing to allow the teams crisis responders to provide services to the subjects of 911 calls in a manner that is as accessible and responsive as possible throughout the entirety of seattle by hiring 18 additional full-time community crisis responders and 3 community crisis responder supervisors to supplement the existing staff of 6 community crisis responders and 1 crisis response manager. Expected outcomes include the expansion of service availability from the city of seattles west police precinct to the entirety of the city of seattle to assist an increased number of community members experiencing behavioral health or related needs throughout a more diverse demographical array of seattle neighborhoods; ensuring minimal response times to maintain stakeholder buy-in and timely assistance to such community members; the provision of supplies, transportation, and resource navigation to address basic needs directly to such community members. No subrecipient activities are proposed.