After serving zero people in September last year, a program designed to assist those who most frequently appear in Hamilton County hospital rooms or jail cells has now ramped up to 31 clients.
Alexa LeBoeuf, the director of the county’s Department of Economic and Community Development, said the pandemic was extremely disruptive to the Frequent User Systems Engagement initiative. Grant funding for the initiative came in just before everything started to shut down, she said.
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“The landscape of how a lot of people in the trenches did work and did outreach kind of shifted the timetable, and there needed to be a revisiting of grants,” LeBouef said in an interview. “For a while there were just some challenges, some unexpected challenges.”