Jail Capacity Data Analytics Strategic Plan, Indianapolis, IN 2016

7.1.3.3. Consider encouraging Pay for Success proposals for diversion programs for arrested individuals with mental health conditions Pay for Success (“PfS”) programs are increasing in popularity around the country, as governments seek to tap proven, innovative approaches to challenging social problems from private and non-profit providers. Under a PfS arrangement, the provider is only paid if verifiable outcomes are achieved. For example, a PfS arrangement might be constructed to reward a mental health diversion provider when an agreed upon period of time has been achieved during which the individual participant in the provider’s program is not re-arrested. The intention is to identify and reward programs that work and, in so doing, save the public agency measurable funds that would have otherwise been spent to incarcerate and/or treat the individual again.