Looking for the SUN program? SUN has ended and transitioned into C-HOT, DDPHE's new co-response program.
The Clinical Homeless Outreach Team (C-HOT) is a co-responder program that fosters a partnership between program clinicians (otherwise known as clinical navigators) and specialized officers from the Homeless Outreach Team (HOT) through Denver Police Department (DPD).
The goal of this collaboration is to divert individuals from unnecessary legal system involvement and/or hospitalization into a coordinated system of care. The program works in alignment with the Mayor’s Office and other city programs to address these 311 calls with a behavioral health focus providing assessments, crisis intervention, and de-escalation among populations with higher acuity and severity in health needs.
The C-HOT engages with individuals experiencing distress related to mental health issues, poverty, houselessness, and substance use.
Through a coordinated response, this team responds to citywide 311 calls for behavioral health needs.
Clinicians will provide person-focused and trauma-responsive crisis support and de-escalation, and other collaborative problem-solving strategies to meet self-identified needs of community members. They will also conduct the entire referral process for client including providing recommendation of best suited behavioral health services based on client need, transporting individuals to service, and conducting warm handoff to service provider.
This work is funded by the Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) Co-Responder Grant and the Caring for Denver (CFD) Foundation Alternatives to Jail (ATJ) Grant.
The interactive map above shows the distribution of SUN program outreach from 2022-2025. Each dot represents the contacts made with community members during an instance of outreach, with larger sized dots corresponding to a greater number of contacts at each area.
Previous year's outreach can be found in the left side panel by clicking the toggle layer icon and clicking the check box to the left of the layer name. Click any outreach dot to view the details of that outreach instance, including the date, location and outreach partner. The green housing symbols on the map represent the city's All in Mile High sites. The bold grey numbers refer to DPD districts, and a grey shading is present in districts that SUN partnered with for co-response during this timeframe. Outlines of Denver's neighborhoods can also be added with the toggle layer icon in the left side panel.
Email us at: ClinicalHOT@denvergov.org