Prior to 2012, a group of stakeholders from the criminal justice and behavioral health ...
Diversion
rssQ&A with Judge Rhathelia Stroud
The Misdemeanor Mental Health Court (MMHC), formerly the Diversion Treatment Court, is the longest-running ...
The Trueblood Lawsuit and Opportunities for Justice System Improvements
By Courtney Hesla, LMHC, Vice President, Comprehensive Healthcare, Yakima, Washington In 2017, Washington State ...
Round Two: Addressing the Rising Use of Methamphetamines Again
Lisa Callahan, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate II, Policy Research Associates, Inc. One of the ...
Competence to Stand Trial: Opportunities for Diversion
The Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) provides a framework for identifying decision points and opportunities ...
BJA’s VALOR Initiative Update
All four of the BJA VALOR Initiative’s Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) sites [Huntsville, Alabama; ...
Breaking the cycle: People with mental illnesses need better options than jail time
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PRA Partners with NACo and CSG on STEPPING UP Initiative
Policy Research Associates, Inc. will be partnering with the National Association of Counties (NACo) and ...
Policy Research Associates, Inc. Completes Sequential Intercept Mapping Report for Los Angeles County, Inspires Criminal Justice Reform
Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey has announced plans to divert lower-level offenders with ...
District Attorney: LA will still need new jail, even with reduction of mentally ill
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Police need more training to deal with mentally ill, L.A. County told
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New Los Angeles Program Working To Divert Mentally Ill, Homeless From Jail
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