jmhcp-2011

State Grantee Name

AR

Craighead County

Program Name

Project LIFT (Life Improvement For Teens)

AS

American Samoa Government

AZ

The 2011 Arizona Department of Corrections Arizona DOC Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Project

CA

San Francisco Sheriff's Department

No Title

Community of Veterans Engaged in Restoration (COVER)

Adult/Juvenile Grant Category

Juvenile

Adult

Jurisdiction Type

Mental Health Entity

Criminal Justice Entity

Program Description

Point of Contact

Planning

In 2006, state and local partners formed an advisory board for an adult mental health court planning grant, Project Intercept. We are going to use Project Intercept as a model for planning the current project. Partners are now positioned to investigate Mid-‐South Health Rural, Suburban Craighead County the possibility of implementing juvenile prevention and diversion programs in Systems Northeast Arkansas. Currently, the primary points of discussion have centered around (1) a teen court, (2) a juvenile mental health court, (3) youth mediators, and (4) transition facilitators.

Planning

Rural

American Samoa will conduct a comprehensive, 12-‐month planning process that will produce a formal strategic plan for the identification, assessment and treatment of The Department system-‐involved individuals with mental illnesses or co-‐occurring mental health and Criminal Justice of Human and substance abuse disorders. This will be accomplished by establishing a Governor-‐ Planning Agency Social Services appointed, ad-‐hoc Justice & Mental Health Collaborating Council representing government, justice, mental health and substance abuse treatment services, advocates, consumers, victims, and family members.

John Suisala

Suburban, Urban

The ADC is requesting funds for training and community corrections supervision tools that will enable the ADC Community Corrections Bureau (Community Corrections) to Arizona Magellan Health establish three specialized supervision caseloads in Maricopa County to target those Department of Services offenders diagnosed with Serious Mental Illness (SMI)/mental health or co-‐occurring Corrections (ADC) disorders. The three specialized supervision caseloads will serve as a demonstration project to determine if this approach to supervision is effective for this population.

Kerry Hyatt

Up to 48 military veterans per day are housed together in the county jail’s COVER dormitory, a modified therapeutic community where they take part in a curriculum designed to change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors. Under the current proposal, Jail Psychiatric Services (JPS) will hire a Mental Health Coordinator to implement essential trauma-‐informed services for the COVER Program. They will screen for mental health issues and make appropriate referrals for mental health and substance abuse services. The Mental Health Coordinator will also be responsible for determining the participant’s legal eligibility for diversion and collaborating with the participant to develop and in-‐custody and community re-‐entry treatment plan.

Maureen Gannon

Planning & Implementation

Urban

The Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc

San Francisco Sheriff's Department

Marilyn Copeland

CA

CO

FL

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara

No Title

Jefferson County Jefferson Partners County Justice Promoting Services Independence (JPPI)

Seminole County

No Title

Juvenile

Planning & Implementation

Suburban, Urban

Santa Clara County Mental Health Department

The target population is youth, prioritizing girls, who are non-‐violent offenders in the Santa Clara County juvenile justice system and are under the jurisdiction of one of the several Juvenile Justice Courts. This project will serve 60 youth each year who are Santa Clara most severely affected by trauma and meet the non-‐violent criteria. Grant activities County Superior will include implementing screening using the UCLA Post-‐traumatic Stress Disorder Kerry De Lima Court, Juvenile Reaction Index; therapy by a licensed clinician utilizing Trauma-‐Focused Cognitive Division Behavioral Therapy (TFCBT); and training for all justice partners on TFCBT and traumainformed approaches. The majority of funding will be used to provide the TFCBT treatment.

The JPPI target population is any adult with SMI/COD who is a non-‐violent offender and may face, is facing, or is being supervised on a criminal case in JeffCo. Uniquely, individuals enter JPPI from any intercept. Planning will build upon the Mental Health and Substance Abuse subcommittee's (MHSA) extensive planning and analysis by Jefferson Center Jefferson County appointing an Advisory Council (AC), identifying opportunities for early interception, for Mental Health Justice Services hiring a Project Coordinator (PC), and developing training. Implementation of system Suzanne Ferrere (JCMH) (JS) improvement will include developing formal referral processes for early intercepts, training of stakeholders, and establishment of a database for performance measurement. Direct services improvement implementation will be built on existing service delivery, extending access to populations ineligible under current payer sources and increasing services by hiring a JPPI-‐dedicated therapist.

Adult

Planning & Implementation

Adult

This project will plan and implement a Mental Health Court that will provide therapeutic jurisprudence for an identified group of justice system-‐involved Seminole Planning & Seminole County individuals who have a serious mental illness and/or co-‐occurring mental illness and Rural, Suburban Behavioral Implementation Government substance use disorders. Due to the high prevalence of females in Seminole’s jail who Health, Inc, (SBH) are on psychotropic medications, a special emphasis will be placed on serving this population.

Valerie Westhead-‐ Tonner

GA

Pickens County Government

No Title

HI

Judiciary Courts of Hawaii

Mea Kokua “The Helper”

Iowa Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning (Linn County)

Iowa 6th Judicial District''s Juvenile and Family Assistance and Stabilization Track (J-‐FAST) Project

IA

IL

Winnebago County

Winnebago County Youth Recovery Court

Adult

Juvenile

Planning & Implementation

Expansion

Rural

Highland Rivers Community Service Board

Adult Mental Rural, Suburban Health Division Forensic Team

The requested funding will be used to continue to plan and implement a Mental Health Court that will serve all three counties of the circuit. Funding will be used to increase the availability of treatment services for individuals with mental illnesses or co-‐occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders, who are involved in the criminal justice system. We currently have a First Stage MHC, which has served Pickens County approximately fifty (50) participants last year. Additional funding would implement a Stacy McClure Government MHC with additional staffing, counseling services, availability of prescription medication, transportation, and data tracking of participant progress. The MHC seeks to intercept individuals at various points in the criminal justice system, with most of the interceptions at Intercept 1 or 2 by law enforcement and emergency services, or by a judge at first appearance, hearings, thereby decreasing the number of interceptions required at each subsequent point.

Hawaii State Judiciary -‐ First Circuit

The Iowa Division of Criminal and Foundation 2 & Juvenile Justice Planning & Rural, Suburban Urgent Care Planning / Sixth Implementation Access Point Judicial District Juvenile Court Services

Planning & Implementation

Suburban

Mildred Berry Center (MBC) Community Mental Health Center

17th Judicial Circuit

The target population includes non-‐violent adults (male, female, and transgenders) who have been diagnosed as having a mental illness or co-‐occurring disorder (substance abuse and mental health) and are facing (pre-‐trial) or have faced (post-‐ conviction probationers) felony criminal charges. Mea Kokua will serve 30 new offenders under the Hawaii Drug Court Program (HDCP) and 10 under the MHC.

Janice Bennett

The J-‐FAST program would address this need for services by providing outpatient-‐ based psychiatric evaluations quickly to help stabilize the child and reduce the likelihood of becoming justice-‐involved due to unmet mental health needs. J-‐FAST solves this problem by coordinating existing local mental health service providers to Scott Musel & conduct all J-‐FAST outpatient psychiatric evaluations on a pre-‐scheduled day. This Paul Stageberg eliminates the waiting period that was exacerbating untreated mental health issues, removes the barriers to access that was driving desperate parents to seek inpatient commitment, and better prioritizes services among the provider community.

The Council is now focused on the planning and implementation of a juvenile mental health court, the Youth Recovery Court (YRC), using the Blueprint for Change Model that will provide intensive wrap around mental health and co-‐occurring services to youth and their families. This current proposal targets the needs of youth with Michelle Rock mental health issues and co-‐occurring disorders by providing specialized judicial processing and dispositional alternatives through the YRC at Critical Intervention Points 4 and 5.

IN

Delaware Delaware County Justice County and Mental Community Health Corrections Planning Project

KY

Floyd County Justice and Floyd County Mental Health Fiscal Court Collaboration Program

LA

16th Judicial 16th Judicial District District Juvenile Attorney's Justice Mental Office Health Program

MA

Greater Milford Jail Milford Police Diversion Department Mental Health Collaborative

Adult

Both

Juvenile

Adult

Planning

Planning & Implementation

Expansion

Suburban

Using the Sequential Intercept Model the grantee seeks to design a strategic, collaborative plan for the development of the first two points of intervention to prevent individuals from entering or penetrating deeper into the criminal justice system. Through a grant-‐funded planning process the local stakeholder community Delaware County will develop plan for Intercept 1, law enforcement and emergency services. A plan Meridian Services Community will be developed for the implementation of a pre-‐arrest diversion system through Corporation Corrections the establishment of a trained Crisis Intervention Team consisting of law enforcement, first responder, and community mental health personnel. A plan will also be developed for Intercept 2, initial hearings and initial detention. This will entail plans for the development of post-‐arrest, pre-‐booking, and post-‐booking diversion through the implementation of a formal jail diversion program.

June Kramer

Rural

FCDC and MCCC have identified that “Intercept 2 – Initial Detention” will be the most The Floyd County effective entry point so that offenders can be screened for mental illness at the Mountain Fiscal Court earliest opportunity and moved into co-‐occurring jail-‐based mental health and Comprehensive (FCFC) / Floyd substance abuse treatment. FCDC and MCCC will also work collaboratively with the Chris Cornett CareCenter County Detention inmate on an individualized treatment and discharge plan to coordinate treatment, Center community resources, case management and follow up to support reentry which is a best practice cited by the Urban Institute (2004). Transitional Aged youth, 18 -‐ 25

Rural

Iberia Comprehensive Community Health Center

Rural

Service delivery to juvenile justice youth with mental illness in our district is fragmented and there is little communication or coordination of services between The 16th Judicial the Prosecutor’s Early Intervention Program (PEIP) and community mental health District (16th JD) providers. A system with formalized processes and protocols is needed to allow the needs of juvenile justice youth with mental illness to be met. Category 2 (Planning of Louisiana and Implementation) funding will allow us to collaborate with stakeholders to put this system in place.

Phil Haney

Milford PD now collaborates with Riverside Community Care, Inc. (“Riverside”) to provide a Jail Diversion Program (“JDP”) in our town. Our proposed expansion will Riverside Massachusetts build upon the success of the current one town JDP by developing and implementing Community Care, Police a regional JDP for the four core towns in Southeastern Worcester County. The main Inc. Department component that a fully funded and expanded program would provide is a JDP that better covers an entire region, effectively interwoven with the regional justice, mental health, and medical systems.

Thomas O'Loughlin

MD

ME

MI

The Worcester County Health Worcester Department County Health Reentry and Department Recovery Project

Cumberland County Mental Maine Judicial Health Court Branch Planning Project

Little Traverse Bay Bands of Little Traverse Odawa Indians Bay Bands of Mental Justice Odawa Indians Collaboration Plan

Adult

Worcester County Health Department currently provides services in the community through out-‐patient mental health and substance abuse treatment, mental health case management, and psychiatric rehabilitation programs. A licensed Social Worker provides services 16 hours a week.Tthere is a need for more mental health services, Worcester County Planning & Worcester County both during and after incarceration. However, it is impossible for the mental health Rural, Suburban Health Tracy Tilghman Implementation Detention Center professional to provide adequate therapy and case management in the current time Department allotted. A significant gap exists during incarceration and during the transition back into the community. The R&R Project would increase the therapist to a full time position as well as add 30 hours per week of a Care Coordinator to provide case management and transition planning to enrolled inmates.

Planning

Rural, Suburban

Rural

Catholic Charities Maine

LTBB Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Program

Maine Judicial Branch

A planning process of a year’s duration under Category 1 of this grant program is proposed by the Maine Judicial Branch and Catholic Charities Maine, a state contracted mental health agency, to identify and engage a broad range of local, county, and state stakeholders in working collaboratively with the goal of designing improved interventionswith the target population in order to appropriately divert individuals from the criminal justice system, ameliorate symptoms of mental illness, support recovery from substance abuse, reduce recidivism, and educate the criminal justice community regarding mental illness and co-‐ occurring disorders. The primary work products of this planning process would be an updated map of current approaches with the target population and a detailed data-‐driven plan for designing and implementing a mental health court in Cumberland County at a later date.

LTBB Law Enforcement Department

Currently, there is no formal process that deals with persons with mental health issues and their involvement in the criminal justice system. Informal efforts include a method to refer clients for services, but criminal justice departments need more information to complete referrals appropriately. To respond to this issue, we need to expand this existing relationship between SA/MH and Law Enforcement to include the entire LTBB Justice System (Law Enforcement, Tribal Court and Prosecuting Julie Kauppila Attorney). The Justice System needs standard policies and procedures to follow to assess and/or diagnose mental illness quickly to allow mentally ill offenders to be diverted from the legal system. Additionally, the LTBB Law Enforcement Department, Tribal Court and Prosecutor have each identified needs for improved methods of identification of mental health issues when they initially respond to criminal justice calls or concerns.

Hartwell Dowling

Juvenile Justice – Mental Health Training Academy

Suburban, Urban

Detroit-‐Wayne County Community Mental Health Agency

This training academy will develop training in effective juvenile justice and mental health care planning and treatment for a broad array of juvenile justice staff, such as caseworkers, supervisors, and administrators, with a strong focus on ensuring that adjudicated youth with mental health needs gain access to and benefit from mental Wayne County health services. The Academy will utilize the D-‐WCCMHA staff training system (VCE) Department of which has developed and provided over 400 live and on-‐line training options to more Children and than 23,000 registered community mental health and other human service workers Family Services in Wayne County since 2008. The long-‐term goals of the Juvenile Justice Academy are to (1) Increase the knowledge of JJ staff on the needs of adjudicated youth in regards to mental health; (2) Improve functioning of adjudicated youth; and (3) Reduce recidivism among adjudicated youth.

The proposed program will offer training to criminal justice professionals to implement a law enforcement response program. The selected model is the evidence-‐ Lauderdale based Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) program. The purpose of Crisis Intervention County Sheriff’s Shelton Calhoun Teams (CITs), is to reduce negative interactions between individuals with serious Dept mental illness and law enforcement officers, including incidents of violence, and to divert individuals from punitive incarceration to appropriate medical treatment.

MI

Wayne, Charter County of

MS

Planning and Implementatio n of CIT Lauderdale Program in County Lauderdale County, Mississippi

Adult

Planning & Implementation

Rural

Weems Community Mental Health Center

Missoula Co-‐ Occurring Treatment Court Enhancement

Adult

Expansion

Rural, Urban

Western Montana Addiction Services

Missoula County

The Missoula Co-‐Occuring Treatment Court seeks funding to enhance court and community corrections services through the implementation of additional and more comprehensive assessment, evaluation, treatment and community corrrections management. Our project will serve additional clients.

Brenda Desmond

Adult

Planning & Implementation

Rural

Carl T. Curtis Health Education Center (CTCHEC)

Omaha Tribal Court

This project asks for funding under the Planning and Implementation category to provide a three month planning process, then to implement a multidisciplinary Mental Health Court (MHC), an arm of the Healing into Wellness Court Initiative began in October 2010.

Mike Wolfe

Suburban

Greater Nashua Mental Health Center

This grant will assist the County with enhancing the successful Community Hillsborough Connections Mental Health Court Project (CCMHCP) with the adjunct component of a County Pretrial Supervision Program aimed at facilitating the release from the Hillsborough Department of County Department of Corrections (HCDOC) inmates with mental illness who are Corrections being held pretrial.

MT

Missoula County

NE

Omaha Tribe Justice & Omaha Tribe Mental Health of Nebraska Collaboration Project

NH

Community Connections -‐ Pretrial Supervision Program

County of Hillsborough

Juvenile

Adult

Planning & Implementation

Eric Reed

Tim Moquin

NM

NY

Pueblo of Laguna

Pueblo of Laguna Shishotz Program

The Co-‐ Occurring NYC Treatment Department of Units (CTU) / Health and Justice and Mental Mental Health Hygiene Collaboration Program

Manhattan NYS Unified Mental Health Court System Court

Both

Adult

Planning & Implementation

Rural

Urban

Laguna Behavioral Health Services

Laguna Tribal Courts

The proposal is a collaborative initiative to create a pre-‐trial diversion program for nonviolent juvenile and adult female offenders, called Shishots (“My Strength”). The program, called Shishots (“My Strength” in the Keresan language) is a pre-‐trial diversion program for women and girls with mental illness or co-‐occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders who could face criminal charges for a non-‐ Kenneth Thomas violent community offense. The project’s goal is to ensure Laguna women and girls are receiving the mental and behavioral health services they need, while improving their well-‐being and quality of life to strengthen their role in the community and the Pueblo culture.

This proposal is designed to address that gap by leveraging the strengths of the correctional and public health systems in NYC, guided by a modified portion of the Sequential Intercepts model, to provide enhanced services and treatment at three critical points: in-‐jail residential treatment, in-‐jail court advocacy, and post-‐release follow up, with the goals of increasing jail safety and lengthening the time of community survival for those dually diagnosed individuals who often cycle in and out of jail. Federal funds are needed to provide staff, training and evaluation to demonstrate that an intensive jail-‐based program using CBT, court advocacy and New York City’s effective discharge planning can have an impact on length of stay in jail and Department of community survival post-‐release when both mental illness and substance abuse Angela Solimo Department of Health and issues are identified, treated and followed, both in-‐jail and post-‐ release. This Cecilia Flaherty Correction (DOC) Mental Hygiene multifaceted and synergistic approach supports the broad in-‐jail and community Daniel Selling (DOHMH) needs of the target population, and is likely to have a greater impact on outcomes than in-‐jail treatment, court advocacy, or discharge planning provided separately. Funding will provide a full-‐time mental health clinician and a part-‐time data analyst. Other staff, including an additional part-‐time data analyst, a part-‐time discharge planner (a Licensed Clinical Social Worker), and a Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC), will be provided in-‐kind. Funds will also be expended on staff training (including required overtime/backfill needed for DOC officers to participate) designed to build a collaborative team approach between security and health staff.

New York State Office of Mental Health

The New York State Unified Court System (UCS) will aunch a pilot of a mental health court for nonviolent felony offenders in Manhattan in early 2011, relying on minimal New York State staff borrowed from other court parts and implementing core program componts Unified Court consistent with the "Essential Elements" of mental health courts. UCS proposes to System hire a ful-‐time coordinator for the Manhattan Mental Health Court (MMHC) plan and implement a number of program enhancements, some of which will be used in MHC's throughout NYC.

Michael Magnani Ann Bader

OH

OK

OR

Sidney Municipal Court

Tulsa County

Clackamas County

Jackson County

Shelby County Justice and Mental Health Diversion Project

Women in Recovery

Back to the Community

Mental Health Recovery Program

Adult

Planning & Implementation

Expansion

Suburban

Rural, Suburban, Urban

Shelby County Counseling Center, Inc.

The overall goal of the Diversion Project is to increase the safety of the public while simultaneously decreasing the number of arrests and incarcerations of the mentally ill. This is to occur through the planning, development and implementation of a Sidney Municipal collaborative effort among law enforcement, the legal community and the behavioral Linda Newman Court health agency to provide early intervention and diversion for individuals with mental health or behavioral health issues who are engaged in, or who are at risk for becoming engaged in, the legal system.

Family & Children’s Services

The Tulsa County -‐ Justice & Mental Health Diversion Collaboration's Women in Recovery program treats women with co-‐occurring substance abuse and mental Tulsa County health disorders at immediate risk of incarceration. Funding will support the Division of Court Michael Willis project’s efforts to integrate mental health and substance abuse services by funding Services an additional therapist position, dually certified in both substance abuse and mental health treatment.

The Back to the Community Program will serve women with mental illness after their release from jail. The program will focus on the grant priorities of justice-‐system involved females, trauma-‐informed care and co-‐occurring disorders. The first Planning & Clackamas County Clackamas County Rural, Suburban purpose of the program is to develop a multi-‐system approach to support mentally ill Karen Slothower Implementation Behavioral Health Sheriff's Office women transitioning from jail with mental health services, community support and basic needs to reduce their recidivism rate. The second purpose is to support independence, psychiatric stability and quality of life for mentally ill women.

Planning & Implementation

Rural

Jackson County Mental Health

Key objectives of the Recovery Program will be to: identify individuals whose criminal activity is primarily a result of untreated mental illness; provide reach-‐in engagement to these individuals while in jail, in the Transition Center or when newly released to Jackson County the community; identify current barriers to receiving treatment and/or maintaining Community stability in the community; assist participants in accessing and engaging in treatment; Justice work with participants to develop an individualized Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP); provide ongoing support to those individuals in following their WRAP plan; facilitate and support access to ongoing services at JCMH and other community resources; and provide direct crisis intervention.

Jodi Merritt

OR

PA

RI

SC

Douglas County

1st Judicial District of Pennsylvania

Rhode Island DOC

Douglas County Oregon Girls Community Partnership

Project Dawn Court

No Title for Project

Charleston Mental Health South Carolina Center, Department of Juvenile Mental Health Justice Services Expansion

Juvenile

Adult

Juvenile

Planning & Implementation

Planning

Expansion

Rural

Urban

Suburban, Urban

Rural, Suburban, Urban

Douglas County Mental Health Division

Douglas County Juvenile Department

The goals of the Girls Partnership are: For girls on informal supervision, to reduce their delinquency and divert them from formal probation; for girls on probation, to reduce their delinquency and prevent the need for out of home placement or incarceration. Funds will be used to build on existing resources and address gaps in the service delivery system, which include lacks in treatment for indigent uninsured girls and in treatment coordination among the three major providers and among ancillary services such as education support, housing, etc.

Aric Fromdahl

First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, Project Dawn Court is a problem-‐solving court exclusively for women who have been Philadelphia District Attorney’s arrested for prostitution and been engaged in the criminal justice system for some Department of Office of time and are not eligible for other diversionary programs offered to first time Behavioral Health Philadelphia, offenders. The primary goal is to help women suffering from co-‐occurring disorders and Intellectual Adult Probation exit prostitution and have meaningful and productive lives; a second goal is to lower Disabilities and Parole the number of women arrested for prostitution and prostitution related offenses, Services Department, who are then detained and/or incarcerated in the Philadelphia county jails for Defender extended periods of time. Association of Philadelphia

Kevin Cross

We propose to implement statewide changes affecting non-‐violent criminal justice-‐ involved individuals with co-‐occurring disorders. Funding will help support: 1) the development of training curricula to be used with the courts and community Rhode Island supervision staff, 2) the development of training for community agencies around the Department of public safety risk that is posed when criminogenic risk is not targeted by Corrections service/support agencies in the community, and 3) the review of existing practices around the segmenting of mental and substance abuse treatment and suggest places for integration.

Jeffrey Renzi

Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Hospitals

The proposed expansion project aims to serve juveniles who are placed on probation in Charleston County and have a current DSM-‐IV Axis I mental health or behavioral Charleston Charleston/Dorch disorder; it will also include those with co-‐occurring disorders. Priority for specialized County Office of ester Mental caseload inclusion will be for those who require clinic-‐ and/or home-‐based services Tamara Starnes the Department Health Center and have complex treatment needs. The main goals are to increase the quantity and of Juvenile Justice quality of mental health services available to juvenile offenders on probation and to reduce recidivism of juveniles on probation with mental illness.

TN

IMPACT (Illness Management/ Anderson Recovery County Program for Government Anderson County, Tennessee)

TX

Mental Health/Crimin Travis County al Justice Planning Project

UT

VA

Davis County Davis County Mental Health Corporation Court Program

Norfolk Community Services Board

Norfolk Juvenile Justice Collaborative

Adult

Juvenile

Planning & Implementation

Planning

Planning & Implementation

Planning

Rural

Urban

Suburban

Urban

Ridgeview Psychiatric Hospital and Center, Inc.

Austin Travis County Integral Care

IMPACT will implement a cross-‐system program that will provide community-‐based, Anderson County integrated treatment services, linked with a referral system to housing/vocational Sheriff’s rehabilitation services, for individuals involved with the criminal justice system and Alan Beauchamp Department diagnosed with mental illness or co-‐occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders.

The project is an evidence-‐based systematic overhaul in Travis County that creates a seamless continuum of care for individuals diagnosed with an Axis 1 disorder, involved in the criminal justice system, and have co-‐occurring substance use Travis County disorders. Funds will be used to: 1) create a uniform database for information Criminal Justice sharing, tracking clients, and program outcomes; 2) maximize mental health Planning treatment utilization; 3) determine unmet needs and needed linkages for females; and 4) develop an evidence based service plan for individuals needing criminal/mental health services.

Cynthia Finnegan

We have launched a pilot Mental Health Court that can demonstrably improve public safety, provide appropriate care, and save money. Funds will provide financial resources until local resources can support the program and expand the number of Davis Behavioral Davis County consumers who can be treated. The Mental Health Court is an alternative to Troy Rawlings Health Attorney's Office traditional sentencing and incarceration for non-‐violent defendants who have Axis I disorders, have been charged with criminal offenses, and whose particular diagnosis has a psychotic basis and has contributed to their offense.

Norfolk Community Services Board

Grant funding is needed to support the staff necessary to coordinate the collaborative planning process that will lead to the development a comprehensive mental health system of care for juveniles who have been diagnosed with an Axis I mental illness or co-‐occurring mental health and substance abuse disorder and have Norfolk Juvenile faced, are facing, or could face criminal charges for a misdemeanor or felony non-‐ Court Service Unit violent offense. Funding will also provide for cross-‐agency training and expansion of (state agency) the current collaborative process to be more inclusive of community partners, particularly consumer and victim groups as well as clients and family members in order to bridge communication gaps and align stakeholders to a united purpose and plan.

Tim Capoldo

WI

WY

Outagamie Outagamie County Mental County Health Court

Teton County Justice and Teton County Mental Health Collaboration Project

Adult

Outagamie County has established a planning coalition to implement a mental health court and expand CIT and CIP training. The goals are to: 1) Increase law enforcement knowledge of mental illness, de-‐escalation techniques and community resources, 2) Outagamie Increase criminal justice system personnel knowledge of mental illness, de-‐escalation Planning & County Volunteer Rural, Suburban NAMI Fox Valley techniques and community resources, 3) Increase the number of court-‐based Implementation in Offender diversion programs and alternative jail strategies, 4) Reduce criminal justice contacts Services (VIOS) among offenders with mental illness and 5) Establish new and continued collaborations among criminal justice, mental health, substance abuse, housing, education and other health and human services agencies in Outagamie County.

Planning

Rural, Suburban

Jackson Hole Community Counseling Center

Brian Bezier, Tracy Bork, Katherine Collentine

Teton County will contract with an independent consultant to conduct a system-‐wide needs assessment related to criminal justice-‐involved individuals with serious mental illness or serious co-‐occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders. The County needs a formal review of its own limitations, gaps and challenges as a foundation for a strategic planning process. Funding and establishing a one year Teton County planning process will allow the county to better understand current processes and Court Supervised limitations described above and explore systemic steps that can be made to improve Anne Comeaux Treatment care, reduce recidivism, and address public safety issues. Possibilities might include Program expanding the Court Supervised Treatment Program; implementing new evidence based screening and assessment tools; improving stakeholder competencies with criminal risk, serious mental illness and serious co-‐occurring disorders; and/or establishing a framework and agreement to coordinate multi-‐agency treatment planning where possible and confidentiality laws allow. Very co-‐occuring oriented grantee.

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