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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE CITIES OF SAN MATEO, SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, DALY CITY AND REDWOOD CITY AND THE COUNTY OF SAN MATEO The purpose of this Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is to set forth the agreement between the County of San Mateo (County), acting through the Behavioral Health and Recovery Services (BHRS) of San Mateo County Health, and the City of San Mateo; the City of South San Francisco; the City of Daly City; and the City of Redwood City (each, a City, and collectively referred to herein as the Cities); and each City’s respective police department to develop a pilot program to improve City and County response to community members experiencing mental health crisis (Pilot Program). This MOU sets forth the terms of a working relationship between the County/BHRS and the Cities, collectively referred to as the Parties, for the provision of embedding licensed clinicians in law enforcement agencies in support of the Pilot Program and the Cities and the County agree to the following: 1. Exhibits and Attachments Attachment 1 –HIPAA Requirements,and Attachment 2 –BHRS Clinician Job Description, are attached and incorporated into this MOU by this reference. 2. Background Information On January 12, 2020, the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors adopted Resolution No.5which approved the Pilot Program, a partnership among the Parties, to embed in each City’s police department one licensed BHRS clinician (BHRS Clinician). The Pilot Program was subsequently approved by each City’s City Council, The Pilot Program is expected to be fully staffed and operational by the first quarter of the 2021 calendar year. Designed based on best practice models in other jurisdictions, the Pilot Program will enhance City and County response to incidents involving individuals experiencing mental health crises, by supplementing that response with the engagement of a BHRS Clinician assigned to work with each partner police department. The BHRS Clinician will assist in the first response by providing early intervention, referrals to therapeutic hospitalizations, and guidance to support services for individuals in mental health crisis. In furtherance of the Pilot Program, the County has entered into an agreement with the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities of the Stanford University Graduate School of Education (Gardner Center), to support the Parties’ planning and implementation efforts (Gardner Center Agreement). Once the Pilot Program is launched, the Gardner Center will conduct an implementation and evaluation study