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REV: 01-10-25 LR <br />MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING <br />BETWEEN THE CITIES OF REDWOOD CITY AND SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO AND <br />THE COUNTY OF SAN MATEO FOR THE PROVISION OF COMMUNITY <br />WELLNESS CRISIS RESPONSE TEAM (CWCRT) FY 2024-2025 <br />The purpose of this Agreement is to set forth the agreement between the County of San <br />Mateo (County), acting through the Behavioral Health and Recovery Services (BHRS) <br />of San Mateo County Health; and the City of Redwood City and the City of South San <br />Francisco (each, a City, and collectively referred to herein as the Cities); and each City’s <br />respective police department to continue to provide the Community Wellness Crisis <br />Response Team (CWCRT) program (Program) to improve City and County response <br />to community members experiencing mental health crisis. <br />This Agreement sets forth the terms of a working relationship between the <br />County/BHRS and the Cities, collectively referred to as the Parties, for the provision of <br />embedding licensed clinicians in law enforcement agencies in support of the CWCRT <br />Program. The Cities and the County agree to the following: <br />1. Exhibits and Attachments <br />Attachment 1 – HIPAA Requirements. <br />2. Background Information <br />On January 12, 2020, the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors adopted Resolution <br />No. R077937, which approved the Pilot CWCRT Program, a partnership among four <br />city Police Departments (Daly City, South San Francisco, San Mateo, Redwood City, <br />and BHRS, to embed in each city’s police department one mental health licensed <br />clinician to provide a crisis co-response to crisis calls involving mental health issues. <br />The County entered a contract with StarVista to provide the mental health clinicians for <br />the Pilot CWCRT Program, as StarVista was already providing a mobile youth crisis <br />response team. The Pilot CWCRT Program was subsequently approved by each city’s <br />City Council. <br />The Pilot CWCRT Program, launched on December 6, 2021, was designed as a law <br />enforcement co-responder mobile crisis model, based on best practice models in other <br />jurisdictions. The Pilot CWCRT Program enhances City and County response to <br />incidents involving individuals experiencing mental health crises, by supplementing the <br />crisis response with the engagement of a mental health clinician assigned to work with <br />each partner police department. The Pilot CWCRT Program clinicians are StarVista <br />staff contracted with BHRS and assist in the first response by providing early <br />intervention, crisis de-escalation, 5150 evaluation, involuntary hold, and referrals to <br />therapeutic hospitalizations, and guidance to support services for individuals in mental <br />health crisis. BHRS provides ongoing clinical training opportunities, consultation, and <br />oversight on the crisis response work, technical and infrastructure support, and contract <br />monitoring responsibilities. <br />ATTY/AGR.2025.004/BHRS of San Mateo County Health (Community Wellness Crisis Response Team MOU) (Page 1 of 17) <br />6.F. - Page 4 of 20 <br />175