A Guide to Mental Health Court Design and Implementation
Addresses issues such as identifying stakeholders to plan and administer court, screening defendants to participate in the court, and sustaining a court's operation and enables new and existing courts to benefit from some of the lessons learned from the BJA grantee courts and some of the many other courts that have sprouted across the country in recent years.

The Essential Elements of a Mental Health Court
As the commonalities among mental health courts begin to emerge, practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and others have become interested in developing consensus not only on what a mental health court is, but on what a mental health court should be. This document articulates this consensus in the form of ten essential elements.

A Guide to Collecting Mental Health Court Outcome Data
Provides practical strategies for deciding which data to collect, for obtaining, evaluating, and comparing the data. Identifies challenges that typically discourage courts from collecting and analyzing data and explains how to clear these hurdles. Positions courts to demonstrate the value of their initiatives and to improve the broader understanding of the effectiveness of mental health courts.

Screening and Assessment of Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System

Research