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Jennifer L. Hall
From:Grace K <
Sent:Sunday, December 13, 2020 3:30 PM
To:Public Comment
Subject:CCRT Pilot Program
I'm writing in support of the Community Care Response Team (CCRT) Pilot Program. Police should not be the lead agency
dealing with homeless people. Instead, social workers who are trained for mental health and homelessness calls should
respond to them so that people experiencing homelessness can get access to resources they need and find paths out of
homelessness, instead of being criminalized and mismanaged by the police. The CCRT Pilot Program in Anaheim can
serve as an example to other Orange County cities so they too can shift mental health and homelessness responses out
of the hands of the police and into the hands of social workers.
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