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subsection and submit a report to the office of financial management 1 and the appropriate committees of the legislature with this 2 information by December 1, 2023. 3 (b) $587,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for fiscal 4 year 2024 and $587,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for 5 fiscal year 2025 are provided solely to support the Whatcom county 6 alternative response team. 7 (70) $500,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for fiscal 8 year 2024 and $500,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for 9 fiscal year 2025 are provided solely for the authority to contract 10 with the University of Washington addictions, drug, and alcohol 11 institute. This funding must be used for advanced, evidence-based 12 training for law enforcement to improve interactions with individuals 13 who use drugs. The training must be developed so it can be adapted 14 and used statewide to decrease stigmatizing beliefs among law 15 enforcement through positive contact with people who use drugs and 16 improve officer well-being and effectiveness by providing skills and 17 techniques to address the drug overdose epidemic. The institute must 18 develop and refine this training, leveraging prior work, and in 19 partnership with a steering committee that includes people with lived 20 or living experience of substance use disorder and criminal legal 21 involvement, researchers, clinicians, law enforcement officers, and 22 others. The training must complement, but not duplicate, existing 23 curricula already provided by the criminal justice training 24 commission. The institute must pilot the advanced training in a 25 subset of regional law enforcement agencies and evaluate its 26 acceptability and feasibility through participant interviews and 27 pretraining and posttraining ratings of stigmatizing beliefs. The 28 institute must incorporate feedback from the pilot training sessions 29 into a final training program that it must make available to law 30 enforcement agencies across the state. 31 (71) $1,000,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for 32 fiscal year 2024 is provided solely for the authority to continue 33 development and implementation of the certified community behavioral 34 health clinic model for comprehensive behavioral health services. 35 Funding must be used to secure actuarial expertise, conduct research 36 into national data and other state models, including obtaining 37 resources and expertise from the national council for mental well- 38 being certified community behavioral health clinic success center; 39 p. 277 ESSB 5187.SL