• An Explanation of California's Mental Health Diversion Program🔍
• DSH Diversion Program🔍
• Mental Health Diversion in California🔍
• Changes to California's Mental Health Diversion Statute🔍
• procedural guidelines for mental health diversion🔍
• California Code🔍
• Mental Health Diversion🔍
• Mental Health Diversion Can Help You Avoid Jail & Get Treatment🔍

An Explanation of California's Mental Health Diversion Program

Known as a Mental Health Diversion, this pretrial program in California offers defendants a true second chance.

DSH Diversion Program - California Department of State Hospitals

The goal of the DSH Diversion Program is to provide these individuals, when a judge deems it safe and appropriate to do so, with long-term community mental ...

Mental Health Diversion in California - How It Works

California's “Mental Health Diversion” program may allow you to get mental health treatment when you are accused of a crime. Set forth in Penal Code 1001.36 PC, ...

Changes to California's Mental Health Diversion Statute

Recent changes to the law have expanded eligibility for California's Mental Health Diversion under California Penal Code section 1001.36.

procedural guidelines for mental health diversion

Superior Court of California. County of Orange. PROCEDURAL GUIDELINES FOR MENTAL HEALTH DIVERSION. Statutory Overview of Mental Health Diversion, Penal Code ...

California Code, PEN 1001.36.

(1) “Pretrial diversion” means the postponement of prosecution, either temporarily or permanently, at any point in the judicial process from the point at which ...

Mental Health Diversion: An Overview of the Legal Guidelines and ...

How does a defendant qualify for Mental Health Diversion? · Murder or voluntary manslaughter. · An offense for which a person, if convicted, would be required to ...

Mental Health Diversion Can Help You Avoid Jail & Get Treatment

Beginning on January 1, 2023, most people charged with crimes are now potentially eligible for mental health diversion. While mental health ...

California Mental Health Diversion (PC 1001.36)

California judges have the discretion to help criminal defendants with mental illness obtain the treatment they need in lieu of traditional penalties and ...

Mental Health Diversion in California | David Silldorf Law

Mental health Diversion, PC 1001.36 in CA, allows a defendants' criminal charges to be dismissed and the records sealed after receiving mental health ...

Mental Health Diversion in California | Kenneth H. Lewis

Mental health diversion can be a means of dismissing your entire case and sealing the records, as if there was no crime charged in the first place!

Are California's Mental Health Courts successful? That depends on ...

Under the expanded Mental Health Diversion law, defendants no longer have to prove their diagnosed mental illness caused them to commit a crime.

Mental Health Diversion for CA Sex Crimes (PC 1001.36)

Per PC 1001.36(c), even if the criminal defendant suffers from a recognizable mental health disorder, and the mental health disorder was a ' ...

California Court of Appeal Explains Qualification for Mental Health ...

Code §1001.36 to create a pretrial diversion program for criminal defendants with diagnosed mental health disorders. It lists six criteria a ...

New CA Law: Mental Health Diversion Defendants Required to ...

Defendants participating in mental health diversion will no longer be able to own or possess firearms, if ordered by the court under AB 455.

Mental Health Diversion

Under California Penal Code 10001.36, a mental health diversion is a form of pretrial diversion that offers mental health treatment to defendants who are ...

Mental Health Diversion in California Criminal Cases

The vast majority of California criminal charges are eligible for mental health diversion under Penal Code section 1001.36.

Mental Health Diversion in California Criminal Cases

CA residents with mental health disorder who've been charged with a crime, a CA law may allow you to have those charges dismissed if you complete treatment.

MENTAL HEALTH DIVERSION PROCESS FOR FELONY CASES ...

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA. COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO. MENTAL HEALTH DIVERSION. PROCESS FOR FELONY CASES ONLY. Effective: June 27, 2018. Process ...

New Pretrial Diversion In California Mental Health Cases

California now offers “Mental Health Diversion” programs that allow some criminal defendants to get mental health treatment when they are accused of a crime.