Criminal Justice / Mental Health Consensus Project

Spotlight on JMHCP: Cass County, ND

The Cass County, ND, Justice & Mental Health Collaboration Project is a jail-based postbooking program that identifies people in jail whose offense is likely a product of an untreated, or undertreated, serious mental illness and links them to treatment and services that improve mental health functioning and reduce or eliminate involvement with the criminal justice system.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS / EVENTS

Two new evaluations of Alaska mental health court completed. Click here for the Anchorage study and here for the Palmer study.

New Resource: Improving Responses to People with Mental Illnesses: Strategies for Effective Law Enforcement Training

Save the Date: February 8 - 11, 2009, American Probation and Parole Association (APPA) 2009 Winter Training Institute in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

CSG Justice Center Releases Essential Elements of a Specialized Law Enforcement-Based Program

New Resource: Women's Mental Health Issues Across the Criminal Justice System

Mental Health Court Learning Site Judge Stephen Goss publishes paper on rural mental health courts

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Online Athens (GA) - Court guides mentally ill to better manage life
12/19/08 - "Claire - not her real name - is one of five people in the new Treatment and Accountability Court, which focuses on getting help for people who constantly run afoul of the law because of mental illness."

Examiner (NJ) - Video offers training for dealing with mentally ill
12/18/08 - "To better protect mentally ill patients who are involved in situations that require a response by law enforcement officers, a new training video, "The Community I Serve," was debuted in New Jersey."

Greenville Online (SC) - Mental health court may become victim of budget cuts
12/18/08 - "Greenville County's mental health court is operating on a shoestring since it ran out of funding, but the partners are trying to keep it going until new funds can be found."

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JUSTICE AND MENTAL HEALTH COLLABORATION PROGRAM

The Council of State Governments Justice Center provides technical assistance to the Bureau of Justice Assistance Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program grantees, who are planning, implementing, or expanding collaborative programs that improve responses to people with mental illnesses involved with the criminal justice system.

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INFONET

The Criminal Justice/Mental Health Information Network (InfoNet) is a new online database that provides a comprehensive inventory of collaborative criminal justice/mental health activity across the country and serves as a platform for peer-to-peer networking.

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MENTAL HEALTH COURTS

The Council of State Governments Justice Center has provided technical assistance to mental health courts across the country and now coordinates the Bureau of Justice Assistance's mental health court learning sites program.

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