Chapter I: Involvement with the Mental Health System
Policy Statement 1: Access to Effective Mental Health Services
Improve availability of and access to
comprehensive, individualized services when and where they are most needed to
enable people with mental illness to maintain meaningful community membership
and avoid inappropriate criminal justice involvement.
Recommendations:
- a.
- Provide user-friendly entry to the mental health system for those who need services.
- b.
- Expand priority service definitions to include more people with mental illness who are at risk of criminal justice involvement or who have histories of criminal justice involvement.
- c.
- Improve access to appropriate services by people with mental illness who are at risk of criminal justice involvement
- d.
- Identify specific needs of individuals with mental illness who are at risk of criminal justice involvement or who have histories of criminal justice involvement and match services to those needs.
- e.
- Draw funding for mental health services from a variety of public sources.