About Mental Health Courts
Mental Health Courts Program | Overview
The Mental Health Courts Program funds projects that seek to mobilize communities to implement innovative, collaborative efforts that bring ...
Similar to other specialized court systems such as drug courts and veterans' courts, mental health courts are an alternative to navigating the criminal ...
Mental Health Court - St. Louis County Courts - 21st Judicial Circuit
The Mental Health Court is a fourteen (14) month program for persons with clear indicators of mental illness and/or substance use dependence. Depending on the ...
Examining Mental Health Courts - American Psychiatric Association
Mental health courts offer an alternative to the traditional judicial system. The general goals of mental health courts are to reduce recidivism and to improve ...
Mental Health Courts: A Guide to Research-Informed
Referrals to a mental health court program most commonly come from defense attorneys, judges, jail staff, or family members. • Mental health courts employ ...
A Look at Mental Health Courts - American Bar Association
Americans with mental illnesses—many of whom have co-occurring substance use disorders—are overrepresented in the criminal justice system.
Mental Health Courts - collaborative_justice - California Courts
How do they work? · Mental health courts only accept people with demonstrable mental illnesses that can be connected to the individual's illegal behavior.
Mental Health Courts - CSG Justice Center
Mental health courts are specialized court dockets for certain defendants with mental illnesses that substitute a problem-solving model for traditional criminal ...
Mental Health Courts and Their Selection Processes - PubMed Central
Admission into mental health courts is based on a complicated and often variable decision-making process that involves multiple parties representing different ...
Mental health courts can struggle to live up to their promise - NPR
Mental health courts connect people to treatment and keep them out of jail. But they also often come at the price of a guilty plea, ...
The origin of mental health courts stemmed from situations similar to those preceding the development of drug courts – repeat offenders in need ...
Behavioral Health and the State Courts | NCSC
The Task Force spent two years developing tools, resources, best practices, and policy recommendations for the state courts to help in their efforts to ...
Mental Health Courts - Mission and Goals | NYCOURTS.GOV
New York State's mental health courts seek to improve public safety, court operations, and the well-being of people with mental illness.
What is a Mental Health Court? - Maryland Courts
What is a Mental Health Court? A Mental Health Court is a specialized court docket established for defendants with mental illness that substitutes a problem- ...
Mental health court - Wikipedia
Mental health court ... Mental health courts link offenders who would ordinarily be prison-bound to long-term community-based treatment. They rely on mental ...
Mental Health Courts - Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
Mental health courts serve the challenging and extensive service needs of people who have a serious mental illness and are involved in the criminal justice ...
Effectiveness of Mental Health Courts in Reducing Recidivism
Overall, a small effect of MHC participation on recidivism was noted, compared with traditional criminal processing.
Mental Health Courts - Overview | NYCOURTS.GOV
Overview New York State's Mental Health Courts (MHCs) seek to improve safety, court operations, and the well-being of justice-involved individuals living ...
What Is a Mental Health Court? - Ohio State Bar Association
Generally, mental health courts (or dockets) seek to stem the flow of the mentally ill to incarceration and instead, mandate treatment to ...
Mental Health Courts - Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania
Mental health courts provide a team of court staff and mental health professionals that work together to screen and assess defendants, develop treatment plans ...