In November 2020, SAMHSA’s GAINS Center hosted the State Summit on Behavioral Health and the ...
Criminal justice
rssMore than Books: New Jersey Libraries Provide a Fresh Start for Returning Citizens
In New Jersey and Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, people returning from incarceration have a ...
Promoting Access to Justice through Trauma-Informed Courts
By Sarai Cook, Esq., Servant Leader, National Trauma Awareness Initiative Trauma Is a Courtroom ...
Q&A with Mark Restivo
You are a former New York City police Department officer. When you were ...
Advocating from Experience: Peers Serving the Legal Needs of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated People
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC), based in Oakland, California, began serving women ...
Q&A with Victoria Westbrook
As the Women’s Gender Responsive Coordinator for the Reentry Division of the San Francisco ...
MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge Behavioral-Health Focused Expansion, the IMPACT Network, Announces Members
Building on significant momentum for evidence-based reforms to local justice systems, the John D. ...
Q&A with Elena Kravitz, CPRP
As one of New Jersey’s leading trainers on psychiatric advance directives, you have taken ...
CJCares Community Paramedics: Reducing Frequent Emergency Service Use by Connecting High Utilizers to Appropriate Care Services
Community paramedicine enables paramedics or emergency medical technicians (EMTs) to provide a range of ...
Meeting Needs and Reducing Recidivism: Washington’s Offender Reentry Community Safety Program
Washington State is cutting its recidivism rates nearly in half among individuals with a ...
Q&A with Neil Campbell, M.S.
As Executive Director of the Georgia Council on Substance Abuse, you are a passionate ...
The Future of Teleservices in Drug Courts
Access the recordings of SAMHSA’s GAINS Center Future of Teleservices in Drug Courts Virtual ...