LEAD West Plains
The LEAD Approach
LEAD works to enhance public safety and equity by diverting people with unmet behavioral health needs and income instability away from incarceration and prosecution, and into non-punitive, collaborative, community-based systems of response and care. LEAD is expressly designed to provide a new system of care for people whose complex, ongoing, unmet behavioral health needs result in disruptive or unlawful behavior. They may lack reliable shelter, income, food, health care, and positive social networks, and may find existing systems inaccessible, impossibly complicated, or insufficiently responsive.
If you are unsure if an individual is LEAD eligible we still encourage you to submit this form and a LEAD outreach specialist will follow up with you.
Referral Pathways
Arrest Diversion
Law enforcement officers can divert people to LEAD when an alleged crime occurs.
Social Contact
Police and others in the legal system can refer individuals with criminogenic histories to LEAD without the occurrence of an alleged crime.
Community Referral
Community members can directly refer eligible people to LEAD without involving law enforcement officers or systems.
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Community Referral
LEAD is explicitly designed to provide a new pathway to long-term, community-based care for people who commit, or are at high risk of committing law violations related to their behavioral health challenges and/or income instability.
We appreciate your interest in making a LEAD (Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion/Let Everyone Advance with Dignity) social contact referral. Providing the information below allows us to assess an individual’s eligibility.
We are accepting community contact referrals from our community partners and members.
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