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.

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.