Community Outreach
Purpose
The Community Outreach, Advocacy, and Recovery (COAR) Program supports the development of comprehensive, locally driven responses to substance use, mental health, and domestic violence. We work to expand access to recovery support services to all community members.
We support first responders by following up on behavioral health related calls for service in Boone County.
Services
- Identify and connect individuals and their families to recovery support services
- Provide transportation to treatment services
- Conduct home visits and follow up after behavioral health related calls for service through the police and sheriff’s department
- Implement behavioral health treatment, assessments, and planning within the Boone County Jail
- Provide follow up post-incarceration for Boone County community members
Funding
This project is supported by multiple grants awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the SMART Office.
COAR's Mission
- Support First Responders
- Improve Access
- Link Families
- Continue Follow Up
- Decrease Amount Of Police Contact
- Ensure Use of Community Resources
1
INITIAL CONTACT via FIRST RESPONDER
- Types of Calls for Service:
- Overdoses/Intoxication
- Welfare Checks
- Suicidal/Mental Health related
- Domestic Related
2
COAR TEAM ALERTED
- First Responder flags the call for the COAR team
3
COAR FOLLOWS UP
- COAR designates appropriate team member(s) who provides follow up within 24-72 hours via phone call or home visit:
- Community Mental Health Clinician
- Peer Recovery Navigator
- Community Outreach Officer
4
WE CONNECT YOU
- COAR connects with individual and/or family members and completes community resource screening and universal release of information
5
COMMUNITY SERVICES
- COAR links individual and/or family to appropriate community services
6
FOLLOW UP
- COAR continues to follow up with individual and/or family until links are successful and all barriers are worked through or until family ceases services
If you need assistance, please call 815-708 4123 or email bc**@bo*********.org
