Program Description

Focused on the East Lake Street corridor, LEAD Minneapolis is building a better approach to the crime, suffering, and harms that can stem from unmet behavioral health needs, homelessness, and/or extreme poverty. A national model replicated in dozens of communities across the country, LEAD seeks to strengthen communities by reorienting the systems that shape health and safety.

LEAD is a proven strategy to reduce harm and increase safety and equity by reorienting response to some low-level illegal behavior. With LEAD, stakeholders collectively ensure that long-term, community-based care and coordination is the primary response for people who commit, or are at high risk of committing, law violations due to their behavioral health challenges and income instability–rather than jail and prosecution.

Learn More at LEADMpls.org