MHRAC Community Engagement Committee (remote only)

Remote Event Link

The Community Engagement Subcommittee is a subcommittee of the Mental Health Response Advisory Committee (more on MHRAC below). It supports two primary charges of MHRAC: to “foster better relationships” and to “develop solutions that improve crisis outcomes.” It works to forge partnerships across the community and act as a bridge for ideas that can help improve outcomes to crisis in our community.

Note: This meeting is remote only. We don’t know if it will be recorded and when the recording would be available if it is. To take notes or record audio of the meeting, please join the Microsoft Teams meeting at the meeting time. You may need to share your name and that you’re a Cleveland Documenter to be admitted to the virtual meeting. There is a notetaking role and an audio role on this assignment. Notetaker: It may be helpful for your coverage to record your own audio of the meeting, but it is not a requirement of your assignment. Documenters assigned to record audio: Learn more about the audio roles we’re testing out. In this case, you record the sound coming from the Microsoft Teams meeting.

Join the Microsoft Teams link here: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YzZkYTk2YjktMmY4NS00NGM0LTkzMGYtMWIwMTNkZmNhYmM2%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2276e2f963-8a1d-45bf-8e06-87a368508b40%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2276e1a4de-c668-4203-901a-677986c94ea8%22%7d

If needed, here is the meeting ID number and the meeting password:

Meeting ID: 295 388 108 77

Passcode: QaLgPg

Angela Cecys (Acecys@clevelandohio.gov), the city’s strategist for public safety and public health, chairs this subcommittee.

Other MHRAC members are on this subcommittee. You can find a full list of MHRAC members here.

Note: If we receive an agenda, we will share it with you and update the assignment page with that information.

More background on MHRAC:

The Mental Health Response Advisory Committee (MHRAC) is a part of the Cleveland Department of Public Health.

The Settlement Agreement between the City of Cleveland and the Department of Justice requires that a Mental Health Response Advisory Committee (MHRAC) be developed by the City and the Cleveland Division of Police (CDP).

This committee has the following charge:

• Fostering relationships and support between the police, community and mental health providers.
• Identifying problems and developing solutions to improve crisis outcomes.
• Providing guidance to improving, expanding and sustaining the CDP Crisis Intervention Program.
• Conducting a yearly analysis of incidents to determine if the CDP has enough specialized CIT officers, if they are deployed effectively and responding appropriately and recommending changes to policies and procedures regarding training.

Find past Documenters coverage of MHRAC meetings here: https://cleveland.documenters.org/reporting/?agency=390

Check the source website for additional information