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Practical Advice on Jail Diversion is intended to serve as a guide for interested community members who want to know how to design, plan, implement, and evaluate a successful jail diversion program. This guide represents the summation of the National GAINS Center's knowledge on the "how to" of jail diversion, based on the past decade's experience of working with, providing technical assistance to, and conducting evaluations of jail diversion programs for people with serious mental illness.
Judges' Guide to Mental Health Jargon: A Quick Reference for Justice System Practitioners
The Judges' Guide to Mental Health Jargon is a resource for judges involved with criminal justice/mental health initiatives in their communities. A tabbed, quick reference guide to the mental health terms most often encountered in criminal justice settings.
This manual features promising practices and tools to document disabilities as part of the SSI/SSDI application process. The manual was created to help case managers and others assist adults who are homeless, especially adults who are homeless and have serious mental illnesses, with SSI and SSDI applications.
The Brief Mental Health Screen
Accurately and quickly screens detainees for the presence of a mental health disorder at booking! The effective quick, simple, and FREE Brief Jail Mental Health Screen (BJMHS) is a powerful booking tool to screen incoming detainees in jails and detention centers for the need for further mental health assessment.
COVR is an interactive software program designed to estimate the violence risk of acute civil psychiatric patients after discharge into the community. COVR is based on a classification tree method and assesses potential risk factors for violence by looking at variables such as personal, historical, contextual, and clinical factors.