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Decriminalizing Mental Illness


Decriminalizing Mental Illness and Promoting Mental Health Equity

The APA believes that community-based services and supports for individuals with serious mental illness should be sufficiently available.

Criminalization of People with Mental Illness | NAMI

NAMI believes in minimizing justice system response to people with mental illness, while ensuring that any interactions preserve health, well-being and dignity.

Decriminalizing Mental Illness - Cambridge University Press

Decriminalizing severe mental illness by reducing risk of contact with the criminal justice system, including for forensic patients.

Mental illness is not a crime. - Sozosei Foundation

Through our Sozosei Summit to Decriminalize Mental Illness and grantmaking, the Foundation is eager to engage in dialogue and work collaboratively to move the ...

Decriminalizing Mental Illness

Overview. In a mental health crisis, people with mental illnesses are more likely to encounter police than get medical attention.

Criminalization - Treatment Advocacy Center

Fifty years of failed mental health policy have placed law enforcement on the front lines of mental illness crisis response and turned jails and prisons into ...

The Future is Now to Decriminalize Mental Illness - NCSC

This webinar will cover best practices for creating and implementing drug court programming for people using methamphetamines and stimulant drugs.

Decriminalizing Mental Illness — The Miami Model

tem to community-based mental health services, aiming to improve community outcomes. Decriminalizing Mental Illness — The Miami Model. John K ...

Decriminalizing severe mental illness by reducing risk of contact ...

Strategies for decriminalizing mental illness in this context should consider a range of approaches, including intervening to prevent CJS contact in those with ...

Decriminalizing Mental Illness: Advocacy and Understanding

Decriminalizing mental illness opens doors to more effective care, supports, and understanding for individuals who have been marginalized by traditional ...

We must decriminalize mental illness to save lives - The Hill

One example is the need to reduce our over-reliance on law enforcement to provide desperately needed mental health care.

Resources Related to Decriminalizing Mental Illness

The resources listed below are focused on research, policy, advocacy, and litigation related to the decriminalization of mental illness.

Andrews, Roth Advocate for Decriminalizing Mental Illness

U.S. prisons are crowded with mentally ill people, a longstanding crisis within our criminal justice system, says author Alisa Roth at a ...

Decriminalizing Mental Illness: A Novel Approach - Film Screening ...

Find out how one Miami-Dade County Judge, Steven Leifman, is bucking the criminal justice system to lead the nation in decriminalizing mental illness.

Decriminalizing mental illness: specialized policing responses

Although more police are now specially trained to respond to calls that involve mental health patients, the criminal- ization of persons with mental illness has ...

Decriminalizing Mental Illness: The Miami Model Winter, 2023

Jails have become the de facto mental health and substance use disorder care systems.” – HON. STEVE LEIFMAN, ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE, MIAMI-DADE COUNTY ...

A Practical Model for Building Sustainable Crisis Intervention Teams

Crisis Intervention Teams divert people living with mental illness from jail with appropriate alternatives. Decriminalizing Mental Illness offers effective ...

Decriminalize Mental Illness | Hank Ehlies | TEDxGreenville - YouTube

Most discussions of PTSD focus on veterans to the extent that many people who suffer from PTSD are often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed.

Chapter 3 - A Brief History of the Criminalization of Mental Illness

In the 1950s to 1960s, the process of replacing long-stay psychiatric hospitals with less isolated community mental health services began. In 1963 the Community ...

Decriminalizing Mental Illness - IJ - Interrogating Justice

Decriminalizing Mental Illness · 07 Jun Improving Access to Mental Health Support in Federal Prisons · 18 May Mental Health and Incarceration in America · 06 Dec ...