3983 Courts 2009-06-09 Media --- - Texas "Keeping probationers with mental-health issues on track is the goal of a newly launched mental health court in Nueces County. The idea is to give felony probationers the tools and support they need to stay out of jail." Search 3979 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Media --- - Colorado "Law-enforcement officers often are first responders in a behavioral-health crisis situation." Search 3978 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Media --- - Connecticut - Massachusetts "As a police lieutenant in New London, Conn., Kenneth Edwards Jr. realized he wasn't serving the mentally ill citizens he encountered." Search 3977 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Media --- - West Virginia "Police, emergency services are taxed by mental health pickups" Search 3976 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Media --- - Virginia "Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced Wednesday that the Department of Criminal Justice Services, in conjunction with the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services, has awarded grants totaling $200,000 to five local mental health agencies that will enable them to establish Crisis Intervention Teams. " Search 3974 Courts 2009-06-09 Programs --- - Georgia The Chatham-Savannah Mental Health Court is a judicially supervised program that targets individuals who, because of an untreated mental illness, have come in contact with the criminal justice system. The program does not excuse offenders of their criminal responsibility, but rather ensures that non-violent offenders do not remain in jail longer simply because of a mental illness. The program combines intensive case management and enhanced supervision to make certain that participants (1) have access to the recommended treatment/services, (2) engage in the treatment/services, and (3) are held accountable when they do not comply with program requirements. Search 3973 Courts 2009-06-09 Media --- - Michigan "Defendants with mental illness now have an alternative to jail, thanks to the combined efforts of legal and mental health professionals who have established a mental health court. Livingston County's Intensive Treatment Court, which District Judge Carol Sue Reader will oversee, officially kicked off Friday at a morning reception at the Judicial Center in Howell." Search 3972 Courts 2009-06-09 Media --- - California "The Supervised Treatment After Release program, [now] in its 10th year, allows criminal defendants with a history of mental illness to enroll in counseling and rehabilitation as an alternative to going to jail." Search 3971 2009-06-09 Media --- - Michigan "Michigan's jails and prisons have become the new institutions for people with mental illnesses. This is not the right way to treat these patients and their illnesses, and it is not the right way to spend taxpayer money." Search 3970 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Media --- - Texas "Counties can divert mentally ill offenders from jail through programs that protect public safety while saving taxpayer dollars. Bexar County has established a successful three-pronged jail diversion program that can serve as a model for other Texas counties." Search 3969 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Media --- - Florida "The Palm Beach Police Department was recently awarded a certificate of recognition from the Florida Crisis Intervention Team Coalition. The certificate was presented 'in recognition of the Palm Beach Police Department's outstanding efforts to establish a first-responder system to assist individuals who may be in mental health or substance abuse crises,' said Michele Saunders, on behalf of the Florida Crisis Intervention Team Coalition." Search 3968 2009-06-09 Media --- - Texas "The Heart of Texas Crisis Care Center... is a 24-hour, one-stop shop for people experiencing a psychiatric crisis. Law enforcement personnel and the public can bring people with acute mental health issues there for evaluation and treatment." Search 3967 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Media --- - New York "With little fanfare, a team of two Yonkers police officers and a counselor began patrolling downtown streets last month, attempting to reach out to the mentally ill and the homeless." Search 3966 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Media --- - Missouri "More than 50 local law enforcement officers graduated yesterday from a program designed to help them better identify people with mental illnesses as well as help them get treatment." Search 3965 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Media --- - Minnesota "Crisis-intervention team is trained to help mentally ill" Search 3964 2009-06-09 Media --- - Tennessee "A mental health crisis can be a frightening experience, both for the individual and for his or her family... Respond is a toll-free service staffed by licensed counselors, and it exists to help families find out what their options are when a loved one seems out of control." Search 81 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] Search 80 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] Search 78 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- - Florida Search 77 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] Search 76 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] Search 75 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] Search 74 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] Search 73 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] Search 2591 Corrections 2009-06-09 Media --- - Texas This kind of support could help reduce the lengthier jail stays experienced by defendants with serious mental illness. Search 72 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] Police departments in the 194 U.S. cities with a population of 100,000 or more were surveyed in 1996 to identify strategies they used to obtain input from the mental health system about dealing with mentally ill persons. At least two-thirds of all departments, even those with no specialized response program, rated themselves as moderately or very effective in dealing with mentally ill persons in crisis. Search 71 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] Search 70 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] Search 69 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- - Tennessee Search 2520 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- - Ohio Search 68 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] Search 2592 Corrections 2009-06-09 Media --- - Florida The real problem is that we continue to expect law enforcement to deal with people with mental and emotional problems that require medical treatment. Search 67 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] This study determined changes in knowledge, attitudes, and social distance related to schizophrenia among police officers after CIT training. Search 66 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- - Tennessee Search 65 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- - Tennessee Search 64 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- - New Mexico Search 62 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] Search 60 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- - California Search 59 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] Search 58 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] Designed to help small-town and rural police agencies define a community policing focus, the second edition reflects developments in the field of law enforcement. Search 57 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] Explores types of incidents involving mentally disturbed people to which police respond, their relative frequency, the characteristics of such incidents, and police tactics considered to be effective or ineffective. Search 56 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] In this study, researchers sampled sworn police officers from three law enforcement agencies, each of which had different system responses to mentally ill people in crisis. Search 55 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- - Alabama - Tennessee The study compared three models of police responses to incidents involving people thought to have mental illnesses to determine how often specialized professionals responded and how often they were able to resolve cases without arrest. Search 54 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] Search 50 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- - Ohio This study examined police dispatch data before and after implementation of a crisis intervention team (CIT) program to assess the effect of the training on officers' disposition of calls. Search 51 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] Search 52 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] Search 53 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- - Oregon - Pennsylvania - Tennessee This paper describes three of the diversion programs participating in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration jail diversion knowledge development application initiative that demonstrate the importance of specialized crisis response sites. Search 63 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] Search 61 Law Enforcement 2009-06-09 Research --- [] Search