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Publications
Following is a sampling of publications produced by PRA. Please visit project web sites for complete listings.
Criminal Justice Division
Overview of the Mental Health Service System for Criminal Justice Professionals
TAPA Center for Jail Diversion
This monograph provides criminal justice professionals with basic information about the adult mental health service system, and it highlights some of the common challenges for the mental health and criminal justice service systems in meeting the needs of adults with mental illness. It is intended as a reference for judges and other court personnel, attorneys, jail services, prison services, diversion programs, probation departments, parole services, alternative to incarceration programs, and law enforcement (author).
Developing a Comprehensive State Plan for Mental Health and Criminal Justice Collaboration
National GAINS Center
This brochure provides an overview of the criminal justice system and identifies the points at which steps can be taken to intercept individuals with mental illness and connect them with the appropriate services. This brochure also outlines the six goals of the President's New Freedom Commission Report and the necessary responses as defined in the Subcommittee Report on Criminal Justice. Recommended action steps for state-level change are also listed.
TAPA Center for Jail Diversion
This report examines an alternate model that courts can use, and have used, to improve the processing of persons with mental illness. The model focuses on two crucial decision points immediately following arrest: the pretrial release decision and the decision to defer prosecution. By changing how those decisions are made and, most importantly, the timing of those decisions, this model has helped numerous jurisdictions handle cases involving defendants with mental illness in an efficient and humane manner without the creation of a separate court part or calendar (author).
Homelessness and Housing Division
Center for Mental Health Services
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. People who are homeless confront unique barriers and have a particularly difficult time applying for disability programs. This manual identifies the challenges, explains why and how they occur, and offers suggestions to case managers and others about how to address them (authors).
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services.
This Blueprint for Change is divided into eight chapters that comprise four sections: before you begin; plan for services; organize services; and sustain services. These sections reflect four action steps that states and communities can take to prevent or end homelessness among people with serious mental illnesses, including those with co-occurring substance use disorders. Each chapter presents current knowledge and specific strategies designed to carry out the action steps. Chapters include: Understand the Changing Context of Care and the Nation's Response; Learn About the Population; Establish Core Values; Establish a Comprehensive, Integrated System of Care; Finance a Comprehensive System of Care; Use Evidence-Based and Promising Practices; Measure Results; and Use Mainstream Resources to Serve People Who Are Homeless (authors).
Trauma Interventions for Homeless Families: Innovative Features and Common Themes
Vanderbilt University Center for Evaluation and Program Improvement
This newsletter discusses the first multisite study to focus on interventions for homeless families in which the mothers have psychiatric and/or substance use disorders. Families, mostly single mothers with children, represent a significant proportion of people who experience homelessness. These families have multiple needs requiring attention and there is little knowledge about how to respond to their needs. To study these issues, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) initiated the Homeless Families Program in 1999. Researchers are studying the impact of comprehensive, multifaceted, time-limited interventions for women who meet the study criteria. The evaluation is still in progress and the effectiveness of the interventions are not yet known; however a major cross-site evaluation question for this program is the extent to which the projects' trauma interventions are effective in helping women reduce the effects of past trauma.
Juvenile Justice Division
National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice.
The Resource Kit includes a comprehensive set of materials and information on evidence-based interventions for justice involved youth, and contains over 180 articles, resources, and web links. The Resource Kit is organized around issues of critical concern: prevalence, screening and assessment, diversion, treatment, re-entry, and specialized issues such as girls, youth of color, sexual minority youth and families. The Resource Kit is currently available in hard copy, on CD-ROM, and as web-based resource available through the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice website.
Juvenile mental health courts: Program descriptions: Processes and procedures
National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
This compendium of program descriptions provides an overview of the courts that participated in the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice's survey of juvenile mental health courts. The overviews include information about the structure, funding, and operation of the juvenile mental health courts, as well as information about services provided and the target population served. Contact information for each of the juvenile mental health courts is also provided.
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
This document represents the first ever attempt to provide a tool that pulls together information on the various screening and assessment instruments for juvenile justice administrators pursuing early, accurate identification of youth with mental health issues involved in the juvenile justice system. The guide includes information on more than 50 screening and assessment instruments, guidelines for selecting instruments, and best practice recommendations for diverse settings and situations.
