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Photo police magazine5/30/2023 In 2019, the Evergreen Treatment Services REACH program had 959 face-to-face contacts with 169 unique individuals. Burien also partners with mobile public health services, Transform Burien, and Ideal Option to provide health, employment, food, shelter or housing, transportation, addiction treatment, and support accessing state and federal benefits. This street-based case management team includes representatives from Burien Police Crime Reduction Unit, Burien Human Services, Evergreen Treatment Services REACH, Sound Health, YMCA Social Impact Center/Nexus, faith-based organizations, Catholic Community Services, and Salvation Army. Their efforts focus on transforming the lives of adults living outside by providing street‐based case management and outreach services to adults. Police and human services employ a harm reduction model for reducing homelessness in Burien. Value‐aligned partnerships that focus on common goals and complementary strengths are key to ensuring successful outcomes for all.”Ī more robust approach grew from that early collaboration. “Creating internal partnerships between colleagues and departments and establishing bigger partnerships between agencies and systems, generates the kind of energy that fuels growth, innovation, and creativity. “We believe two heads are better than one,” says Brandt-Schluter. To make everyone feel welcome and safe in Burien parks, City staff and Burien Police took a compassionate collaborative, and legal approach to preventing camping and encampments on public property that complies with the Martin v Boise decision. ![]() On May 6, 2019, the City of Burien announced a new approach to addressing unauthorized uses of Burien parks and facilities. Reducing Homelessness through Harm Reduction “Our goal is to ensure that our approach is grounded in science, responsive to community needs, and is capable of achieving tangible and positive outcomes,” said Chief Ted Boe, Burien Police Department. Their efforts have focused on addressing homelessness and crimes of poverty, developing a shared services model, and enhancing services for youth, following the Council-adopted Framework for Strengthening Families. Starting with the hiring of Burien’s first human services manager and the selection of a new police chief in 2018, both departments began a partnership to help more people connect to the support and services they needed to avoid further interactions with the criminal justice system. Their “leading with services” approach to addressing the root causes of criminal activity relies on partnerships, relationship-building, and a recognition that complex problems require solutions from many sectors and disciplines. Human services and police work together to address these major challenges. “Substance use, child welfare, intimate partner violence, suicide, juvenile justice, mass violence, homelessness, crimes of poverty-these are not only some of the most prominent societal challenges we face today, but also require involvement from both police and human services.” “When it comes to serving communities and responding to individuals in crisis, law enforcement agencies and human service systems each play a role in maintaining the safety and stability of our community,” said Colleen Brandt-Schluter, Human Services Manager. ![]() Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Burien is starting to see results from the investments and hard work of human services, police, and collaborating community organizations and agencies. This report by The Canadian Press was first published February 19, 2023.Burien has a unique approach to addressing critical issues in our community. ![]() Police say they notified Correctional Service Canada after learning the man was a parolee from the Edmonton Institution, and he remains in custody. The 23-year-old man who was arrested faces numerous firearms charges, including two counts of possession of a firearm or ammunition contrary to a prohibition order. Police say the rifle's serial number had been obliterated, and the magazine had been altered to increase its capacity to hold additional rounds. In a residential yard within the same block of the arrest, police say they found a loaded sawed-off Kodiak WK180C semi-automatic rifle with a magazine containing. They say officers were alerted to a report of a man with a firearm in a neighbourhood in the city's north end on Saturday afternoon, and a man matching the suspect's description was located and arrested. Police in Winnipeg say they recovered a semi-automatic rifle with a magazine that had been modified to hold extra rounds when they responded to a weekend gun call.
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