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A Look into Court|Based Behavioral Health Diversion Interventions


A Look into Court-Based Behavioral Health Diversion Interventions

In this publication, we answer some common questions from people who may want to invest in court-based diversion.

A Look into Court-Based Behavioral Health Diversion Interventions

Recognizing that people with behavioral health needs are overrepresented in the criminal justice system,1 many communities have developed ...

A Look into Court-Based Behavioral Health Diversion Interventions

In this publication, we answer some common questions from people who may want to invest in court-based diversion, such as why set up this type of intervention, ...

The Judges' Guide to Mental Health Diversion - NCSC

All judges should exercise leadership to expand and improve responses to individuals with mental illness across the continuum of behavioral health diversion.

Judges' guide to mental health diversion - Wisconsin Court System

² These individuals are referred (and sometimes compelled) to a stepped down intervention generally involving treatment for the relevant behavioral health ...

Diversion Programs, Explained | Vera Institute

Pre-arrest diversion programs are designed to reduce the number of people arrested and placed in jail by giving law enforcement discretion to ...

Law Enforcement and Behavioral Health Partnerships for Early ...

The Early Diversion grant program works to keep people with mental and/or substance use disorders out of the criminal justice system.

NEW RESOURCE: Judges' Guide to Mental Health Diversion | NCSC

NEW RESOURCE: Judges' Guide to Mental Health Diversion This new guide is intended to serve as a resource framework for courts and judges to use ...

Mental Health Courts

No requirement for a guilty plea - A guilty plea should not be required to enter a mental health court program. This requirement precludes diversion from the ...

Jail Diversion Models: Part I - COSSUP Resource Center

getting a job and a reduction in lifetime earnings.12. Court-based post-booking diversion is conducted by mental health clinicians based in the courthouse.

Diversion Programs - Youth.gov

According to the National Center on Mental Health and Juvenile Justice, services delivered through diversion programs typically occur in the community ...

L.A. Court Diversion Program for People with Behavioral Health ...

A Los Angeles County program to divert some people with behavioral health problems from the criminal court system has demonstrated ...

Behavioral Health Diversion Interventions: Moving From Individual ...

This paper provides local leaders with a systems-level conceptual framework for developing a continuum of behavioral health diversion interventions that ...

PLANNING A BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PLD PROGRAM

One of the more complex, yet vital, forms of prosecutor-led diversion programming is one that addresses individuals that suffer from ...

Practical Advice on Jail Diversion - Policy Research Associates

Court-based programs can be further separated into specialty (e.g., mental health and drug courts) and regular dispositional courts. Each of these is described ...

Turning One-Off Programs into System-Wide Behavioral Health ...

A growing number of communities are implementing behavioral health diversion programs as alternatives to conventional criminal justice case ...

The Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) - SAMHSA

Involves community-based criminal justice supervision with added supports for people with mental and substance use disorders to prevent ...

Who Qualifies for Mental Health Diversion? - EAC Network

Mental health diversion provides an alternative to incarceration for those living with mental illness or co-occurring substance abuse.

Moving from Individual Programs to a Systems-Wide Strategy

Behavioral Health Diversion Interventions: Moving from Individual Programs to a Systems-Wide Strategy ... The brief was also prompted, and guided, through work ...

A National Survey of Criminal Justice Diversion Programs and ...

In many ways, modern justice policy is beginning to adopt public health strategies, focusing on broad-based, systemic intervention, and the application of the ...