In addition to a discussion of the behavioral health strategies included in sites' SJC implementation plans, the report contains collective data from sites' Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) workshops . PRI has facilitated SIM workshops with 23 Implementation Sites and 3 Innovation Sites over...
Rethinking Jails and Behavioral Health.pdf
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) recently sent a letter to state mental health commissioners on using federal Mental Health Block Grant (MHBG) funds to treat justice-involved individuals. The letter, which appears to expand the allowable uses for MHBG...
mhbg-funds-commissioner-letter-021120.pdf
In February 2020, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, HHS leaders, and 18 rural partner organizations launched a Rural Community Action Guide to empower local leaders in the addiction crisis. The Guide is based on lessons learned from rural round tables held in over a dozen different...
Rural Action Guide Fact Sheet.pdf
This report identifies ten specific areas, or guiding principles, that will assist states and federal policy makers in defining and understanding what comprises safe, effective, and legal recovery housing. National organizations have contributed significant and valuable work in developing...
While there is a growing trend promoting treatment vs jail for justice-involved people with mental health needs, jurisdictions struggle with how to divert people to treatment once a criminal case begins. This session will examine two examples of pre-plea diversion for people charged with...
Pre-Plea Diversion for People with Mental Illness.pdf
Diversion to What? is designed to provide guidance to stakeholders engaged in efforts to reduce incarceration of people with psychiatric disabilities, laying out the types of services that should be the focus of such efforts. The report describes what those services do and how they are...
Bazelon-Diversion-to-What-Essential-Services-Publication_September-2019.pdf
NACo works to preserve local decision making, to protect counties from unfunded mandates and local preemption and to strengthen the federal-state-local partnership. #Legislation #MentalHealth
This manual is a compilation of recommended data elements organized around each of the six intercepts represented in the SIM. Each section lists data points and measures that are essential to addressing how people with mental and substance use disorders flow through that intercept. The sections...
data_across_the_sim_508.pdf
This publication is the outcome of a grant from the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) to the Major County Sheriffs of America (MCSA) and its study partner, the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC). The purpose of the grant was to identify successful...
Policy Research, Inc. (PRI) provides intensive technical assistance to the MacArthur SJC Network to help the sites reduce over-incarceration of individuals with behavioral health disorders. Watch the video to learn more about what PRI provides to SJC sites. #MentalHealth #substanceabuse
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