Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program

Implement a co-responder program; hire and train mental health professionals; implement education and training initiatives; perform comprehensive program evaluation. Develop a shared mental health information system; provide training in criminal thinking, case management, crisis responses, integrated treatment, and supervision strategies; provide diversion and treatment opportunities; conduct evaluation.

Design and implement enhanced law enforcement training and case management services; implement screening assessment for criminogenic risk; conduct comprehensive agency assessment and analysis of agency and jail offender data; create resource inventory; complete planning and implementation guide; conduct program evaluation.

Establish a behavioral health co-responding team between the Sheriff’s Office and mental health provider; provide training in mental health service; conduct substance abuse evaluations and offer resources; create a planning and implementation guide.

Establish a partnership between the Sheriff’s Office and mental health provider to add programming and develop and deliver cross-trainings; develop individualized treatment plans; offer mental health interventions and discharge planning; partner with community agencies for collaborative care and in-reach programming.

Create a School-Justice Partnership where youth with mental illness, trauma, or substance abuse are referred by school resource officers to treatment services.

Build an emergency/transitional housing center to serve homeless residents; offer wraparound services; hire key personnel.

Implement a co-responder program; identify best practices and create an advisory group; create a team consisting of a clinician, peer mentor, and law enforcement officer.

Build workforce capacity; increase Community Supervision Officers technical skillset and substantive mental health knowledge through ongoing mental health training and monthly clinical case consultation; improve timely access and engagement; develop policies and protocols based on best practices to prioritize at-risk individuals.

Risk-informed case management for frequent utilizers of the system; system-wide coordination under the Stepping Up framework.

Establish a Police-Mental Health Collaboration and interagency workgroup; promote information sharing.

Collect baseline data; implement a co-responder team; hire a case manager and licensed clinicians.

Increase community capacity for advocacy; provide wraparound services; hire coordinator and peer specialist.

Baseline data collection on recidivism for high utilizers; establish a co-responder program; implement validated mental health screener in jail; connect jail inmates to community-based services.

Juvenile mental health court; hire a mental health court case manager and part-time youth certified peer support.

Expand and formalize a 911-dispatched co-responder crisis response team; host trainings and free community educational events.