Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

CMHS Consumer Affairs E-News
February 1, 2007, Vol. 07-28A

Mental Health/Criminal Justice Research and Resources:
A Review of Publications from 2006

Throughout 2006, the CMHS National GAINS Center for Systemic Change for Justice-Involved People with Mental Illness and the CMHS Technical Assistance and Policy Analysis (TAPA) Center for Jail Diversion continued to provide resources on mental health/criminal justice issues through its website. Fact sheets and discussion papers emerged from the CMHS National GAINS Center's series of expert panel meetings on the application of evidence-based practices (EBP) to criminal justice settings. The CMHS National GAINS Center also developed an overview of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative programs that offered specialized services for justice-involved individuals with mental illness. Resource papers and the concept paper from the After the Crisis Initiative: Healing from Trauma after Disasters, a collaboration between the CMHS National GAINS Center and the CMHS National Center for Trauma-Informed Care (NCTIC), were made available through the initiative's web page. The website also features the PowerPoint presentations and audio replays of the free net/tele-conferences on mental health/criminal justice information sharing and jail diversion in rural areas conducted by the CMHS TAPA Center for Jail Diversion.

A number of publications, peer-reviewed journal articles, and online resources that address mental health/criminal justice issues were released in 2006. For example, the Council of State Governments Justice Center launched the Criminal Justice/Mental Health Information Network and the CSG/NIC Collaboration Assessment Tool. The following is a selection of articles and other publications from last year that addressed mental health/criminal justice issues, such as criminal justice adaptations of EBPs, mental health courts, and the Sequential Intercept Model.

For more information, see: http://gainscenter.samhsa.gov/html/jail_diversion/CMHS/cmhs_initiative.asp.

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