The following is a press release issued by the Fort Bragg Police Department:
In May, the Fort Bragg Police Department partnered with Mendocino County to apply for a grant from the California Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) and the Proposition 47 Grant Program to expand Care Response Unit (CRU) outside of Fort Bragg on the coast. The total grant awarded is $2.5 million to be used over the next three and a half years. This was a competitive grant process with dozens of applicants across the state. Recently, FBPD was notified their grant proposal was selected to be awarded.
Proposition 47 passed in 2014, with the intent of reducing the number of people sent to prison. Part of the proposition was the resulting savings generated by reduction in the prison population would be deposited into a special fund. Sixty-five percent of those funds were to be used annually for BSCC to administer a competitive grant program. BSCC requires at least 50% of awarded funds are passed through to community-based providers.
The Mendocino Coast Hospitality Center will be receiving $1.5 million to expand behavioral health services outside of Fort Bragg to more of the Mendocino Coast. These funds will also be used to dedicate temporary and transitional housing to CRU Team clients.
The $1 million portion to the Fort Bragg Police Department pays for a third Care Response Unit team member, whose time will be split between Fort Bragg and county areas from Albion to Westport. A part-time administrative assistant, administrative costs, and other associated costs are also covered.
Also included in this partnership is the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office, who will have a CRU team member to address the same issues in the county in which CRU has been so successful with in the City of Fort Bragg.
Chief Neil Cervenka said, “The Care Response Unit program was imagined by Captain Thomas O’Neal, who got the first grant to start it in 2022 to address the homeless crisis in Fort Bragg. Over the past two years, CRU has proven a successful model and grown to be a holistic answer to many of the social struggles law enforcement is tasked with solving. With the support of Mendocino County and Sheriff Kendall, we will show the model can be expanded to much larger areas and still be successful.”
City Manager Isaac Whippy highlighted the significance of the CRU program and its expansion, stating, “The Care Response Unit has become an integral part of how we approach public safety in Fort Bragg. By addressing complex social challenges like homelessness and mental health, the CRU program has made a real difference in our community. What sets this program apart is its ability to provide not only safety but also compassion, treating people with the respect and dignity they deserve in difficult times. By partnering with the Sheriff’s Office to expand this successful Fort Bragg model along the coast we are ensuring that all coastal residents, no matter where they live, have access to the care, support, and services they need. This partnership allows us to better serve our community while easing the burden on our law enforcement officers, letting them focus on their core duties. It’s a smart, compassionate approach, and I’m proud to support it.”
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Hey, BOS, are you paying attention here? Are you? Ukiah City Council, are you? If Fort Bragg can work the Marbut report with success why can’t we all? I am sick of seeing people in Ukiah who are not getting the help and direction they should wander aimlessly and those who refuse such help need to leave. Get on board already!!!!
Congrats to Fort Bragg, keep it going!
Fort Bragg isn’t really doing anything special. Just the usual “move em along” tactics that San Francisco is now employing. Whenever I drive through FB there are still too many homeless. Usually the same old destitute faces. Always a few new ones, too. The only difference is you see more bums in the weeds north, south, and east of town.
The FB CRU program has no real accountability. All they need is someone to answer their phone call and say “yeah sure we have a room for that bum, go ahead and put em on the bus!” And then they can call it a success and pad their statistics for the next grant cycle.
Every time the city buys some rock-bottom doper a “one-way” bus ticket(hahaha there is no such thing as a one-way ticket – they always come back) another bum is attracted by the services and the feel-good do-nothing attitude offered by the fake liberal majority of Mendocino County.
Cut the services and offer nothing beyond tough love and the problem will eventually stop coming.
If anyone really cared to solve the homeless issue on a national level we’d be talking about job automation, wage stagnation, speculation on housing, and immigration/border security. More jobs are being automated everyday. The remaining jobs are increasingly unfulfilling and compensation has been divorced from productivity for decades. And to be clear I’m not in support of arbitrary minimum wage adjustments.
That’s one of the big reasons they want this invasion of third world illegal immigrants and H1b visas. It’s the easiest way to dismiss any discussion of automation or worker compensation. Import new slaves, the more desperate the better. Keeping wages low while productivity, as always, steadily trends upward – now with the help of AI and robotics.
Oh yeah, what about those “green energy” wind farms shell oil company wants to install in the ocean? Those wind farms will be powering the software that will replace you.
Of course the dominant bloc in Mendocino County will vote to take another bite of this shit sandwich rather than face any honest discussion.
P.R.I.C.K.: Person Relentlessly Ignorant of Cultural Kindness
A.C.E. – A Crappy Example. What a fitting anonymous handle you chose. Also known as a pathetically brainwashed shill unable to articulate a coherent argument. She resorts to the usual profane ad hominem attacks employed by those incapable of critical thinking.
All that hate is eating up your mental capacity. Like a virus-ridden computer.
If you stand for nothing you’ll fall for anything. Good luck out there, ACE
Thank you, and you’re welcome. Do something constructive with your life. See Supreme Court case #22-7403.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-7403/265650/20230428132944331_20230428-132613-95759622-00000687.pdf
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Yes Fort Bragg has been wildly successful at bussing their local homeless population to Ukiah for the last few years.