Broken Arrow City Council
Meeting of: 06-16-2025
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Approval of and authorization to execute a memorandum of understanding with CREOKS certified community behavioral health center (CCBHC) to provide crisis prevention and mitigation services to the City of Broken Arrow and its Police Department
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Background:
Broken Arrow Police Department (BAPD) personnel are frequently called to help individuals in our community who are experiencing a crisis. Often, the precipitating variable for the crisis is abuse and/or use of pharmaceutical and illicit opioid substances. These calls for service represent a noticeable portion of the public safety call volume. Police personnel, while well trained and capable, are ill equipped to assist those in crisis with finding community resources such as substance abuse treatment, counseling, housing, food, et cetera.
BAPD has an ongoing effort to mitigate substance abuse and mental health crisis occurrences. BAPD is seeking to enter a partnership with CREOKS to provide crisis response as part of crisis mitigation. CREOKS will embed trained professionals in the field with our law enforcement officers. Further, CREOKS will soon be opening Broken Arrow’s first ever brick and mortar mental health hospital which will be in the 2400 block of East Hillside Drive. The CREOKS facility will be modern and will offer a variety of services to the community. These include, in part, a primary care physician (PCP) practice in addition to its mental health treatment services. Broken Arrow Police officers and consumer citizens will now no longer have to leave the city limits for their mental health needs to be addressed. This will result in time savings for officers, consumers, and family members of consumers.
The City of Broken Arrow participated in a successful lawsuit against several opioid manufactures and distributers. The judgement against the opioid manufacturers and distributors has resulted in the receipt of funds which must be used for opioid abatement, training, prevention, and treatment. Staff is recommending the use of these funds to enter into this agreement with CREOKS to prevent and mitigate the effects of opioid use in the community. Staff recognizes that while the primary purpose of the agreement is to address the effects of opioids, the program will likely also address other coexisting crisis variables such as homelessness, mental health, domestic violence, poverty, et cetera.
Cost: $108,000.00
Funding Source: Fund 349, Opioid Settlement Fund
Requested By: Lance Arnold, Chief of Police
Approved By: City Manager’s Office
Attachments: Memorandum of Understanding
Recommendation:
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Approve and authorize the execution of a memorandum of understanding with CREOKS certified community behavioral health center (CCBHC) to provide crisis prevention and mitigation services to the City of Broken Arrow and its Police Department
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