Survey of Mental Health Courts available in state-searchable format

The survey of mental health courts compiled by NAMI, the National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System, the TAPA Center for Jail Diversion, and the Council of State Governments (coordinator of the Criminal Justice / Mental Health Consensus Project), is now viewable on its own web page, http://www.mentalhealthcourtsurvey.com.

The survey includes information on over seventy mental health court programs around the United States that are operating or in the planning stages. The web-based version includes a form for the administrators of additional such programs to submit information for inclusion in the survey. For more information about the survey, see the announcement of its publication as a PDF file.

Mental health courts are just one approach among many to improving the response to people with mental illness who come into contact with the criminal justice system. For examples of some of the many other types of programs active in jurisdictions across the country, please visit the Consensus Project's searchable Program Profiles.