The document discusses how information sharing can divert people with mental illness from the local mental health system. It describes how collaboration between law enforcement, mental health providers, and other groups through a crisis care center reduced wait times. Specifically, wait times for medical clearance at the crisis care center were reduced to 45 minutes from over 9 hours. It also shows cost savings of over $15 million over two years from diverting public inebriates, injured prisoners, and mentally ill people from detention facilities, emergency rooms, and jails.