Recommendations to Create a Supportive Workplace for Individuals With Mental Health Conditions
Recommendations to Create a Supportive Workplace for Individuals With Mental Health Conditions shares how workplaces can create supportive environments for individuals experiencing serious mental illness (SMI).
Achieving Well-Being In Recovery: A Review Of Existing Measures
Achieving Well-Being in Recovery: A Review Of Existing Measures sheds light on the measurement of wellness and well-being for individuals with mental health conditions, offering practical guidance for professionals in the field.
Trueblood Diversion Services Summit
Trueblood Diversion Services Summit highlights strategies to divert people with mental illness from the criminal legal system, and offers practical guidance and recommendations for vested partners and service providers.
Guidelines for the Successful Transition of People with Behavioral Health Disorders from Jail and Prison
Guidelines for the Successful Transition of People with Behavioral Health Disorders from Jail and Prison assists behavioral health and criminal legal system professionals in supporting individuals with behavioral health issues transitioning from incarceration to the community.
From Planning to Practice: Insights From a Survey of Crisis Stabilization Centers
This resource examines the diverse approaches jurisdictions are taking to establish essential crisis stabilization centers.
Creating Data-Informed Strategies to Understand the Needs of People in Your Jail
This publication provides a comprehensive guide to creating data-informed strategies to understand and address the diverse needs of individuals in local jails.
A National Compendium of Court Navigation Programs
This Compendium provides an overview of 18 court navigation programs operating in 22 states across the United States.
Learning for Collective Impact
Integrating collective action and improvement science frameworks is essential for developing focused strategies to…
Screening and Assessment for Suicide Prevention: Tools and Procedures for Risk Identification among Juvenile Justice Youth
Identifying suicide risk among young people is a critical component of the comprehensive approach…
Suicidal Ideation and Behavior among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: A Review of the Literature
Despite significant concern over suicidal ideation and behavior among youth involved with the juvenile…
Tips for School Administrators: Leveraging Existing Resources to Support School Responder Model Implementation
Tips for School Administrators: Leveraging Existing Resources to Support School Responder Implementation provides practical…
Strengthening Our Future: Key Elements to Developing a Trauma-Informed Juvenile Justice Diversion Program for Youth with Behavioral Health Conditions
Strengthening Our Future: Key Elements to Developing a Trauma-Informed Juvenile Justice Diversion Program for…
Self-Care and Wellness: An Important Focus for Staff Implementing a School Responder Model
It is estimated that half a million, or 15 percent, U.S. teachers leave their…
What Happened to Defunding?
What Happened to Defunding? The Migration of Law Enforcement Funding and Building the Right…
Juvenile Justice Diversion for American Indian Youth
Juvenile Justice Diversion for American Indian Youth documents the efforts, learnings, and experiences from…
Strengthening School-Family Community Partnerships Through the School Responder Model
Strengthening School-Family Community Partnerships Through the School Responder Model explores how the School Responder…
Juvenile Diversion Guidebook
The Juvenile Diversion Guidebook explores diversion for youth involved with the juvenile justice system….
Providing and Receiving Technical Assistance: Lessons From Models for Change
Providing and Receiving Technical Assistance: Lessons From Models for Change provides a brief overview…
Preventing Suicide: Working With Youth Who Are Justice Involved
Preventing Suicide: Working With Youth Who Are Justice Involved gives a foundational summary for…
Preventing Juvenile Suicide Through Improved Collaboration: Strategies for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Agencies
Preventing Juvenile Suicide Through Improved Collaboration: Strategies for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Agencies…
Law Enforcement-Based Diversion: Strategic Innovations from the Mental Health/Juvenile Justice Action Network
Law Enforcement-Based Diversion: Strategic Innovations from the Mental Health/Juvenile Justice Action Network provides an…
Workforce Development: Strategic Innovations from the Mental Health/Juvenile Justice Action Network
Workforce Development: Strategic Innovations from the Mental Health/Juvenile Justice Action Network provides an update…
School-Based Diversion: Strategic Innovations from the Mental Health/Juvenile Justice Action Network
School-Based Diversion: Strategic Innovations from the Mental Health/Juvenile Justice Action Network provided an update…
Intake-Based Diversion: Strategic Innovations from the Mental Health/Juvenile Justice Action Network
Intake-Based Diversion: Strategic Innovations from the Mental Health/Juvenile Justice Action Network explores probation intake…
Trauma and the School Responder Model Tip Sheet Series for Educators: Trauma as a Contextual Factor in School Responder Model Implementation
This tip sheet provides a summary of the importance of trauma-informed approaches that can…
Trauma and the School Responder Model Tip Sheet Series for Educators: Overview of Trauma
This tip sheet provides an overview of trauma to help educators understand its prevalence…
The Intersection Between the School Responder Model Framework and Special Education Law
This brief discusses how the School Responder Model (SRM) framework connects with federal special…
Systems of Care Programs That Serve Youth Involved With the Juvenile Justice System: Funding and Sustainability
This brief explores ways in which communities can financially sustain the efforts they have…
Successfully Collaborating With the Juvenile Justice System
This brief takes a close look at the importance of true collaboration between community‐based…
Sustaining Change: A Models for Change Guidebook
This report and the accompanying workbook provide information on the following four broad strategies…
Mental Health Screening within Juvenile Justice: The Next Frontier
Mental Health Screening within Juvenile Justice: The Next Frontier discusses issues surrounding screening youth…
Trauma Among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: Critical Issues and New Directions
This paper discusses the prevalence and impact of trauma and traumatic stress among youth…
Diverting Youth at Probation Intake: The Front-End Diversion Initiative
Diverting Youth at Probation Intake: The Front-End Diversion Initiative addresses the growing body of…
New Directions to Effectively Address Co-Occurring Mental Disorders
New Directions to Effectively Address Co-occurring Mental Disorders outlines program modifications for juvenile drug…
Providing Effective Treatment for Youth with Co-Occurring Disorders
Providing Effective Treatment for Youth with Co-Occurring Disorders addresses the gap in treatment options…
Policy Statement on Indiscriminate Shackling of Juveniles in Court
Policy Statement on Indiscriminate Shackling of Juveniles in Court states the National Center of…
Opportunities to Pursue Trauma-Related Work in the Every Student Succeeds Act: A Product of the Defending Childhood State Policy Initiative
Opportunities to Pursue Trauma-Related Work in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): A Product…
Youth With Mental Health Disorders in the Juvenile Justice System: Results From a Multi-State Prevalence Study
Youth With Mental Health Disorders in the Juvenile Justice System: Results From a Multi-State…
Juvenile Mental Health Courts: An Emerging Strategy
Juvenile Mental Health Courts: An Emerging Strategy explores the potential impacts of juvenile mental…
Juvenile Diversion: Programs for Justice-Involved Youth with Mental Health Disorders
Juvenile Diversion: Programs for Justice-Involved Youth with Mental Health Disorders explores the results of…
Screening and Assessing Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Screening and Assessing Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Among Youth in the Juvenile…
Involving Families of Youth Who Are in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System
Involving Families of Youth Who Are in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System explores…
Practical Advice on Jail Diversion
Originally published in 2007, this resource offers actionable information on what jail diversion is,…
SOAR for American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
SOAR for American Indian and Alaska Native Communities provides an overview of the ways…
SOAR Works for Individuals Involved in the Criminal Justice System
This issue brief, developed by the SAMHSA SOAR TA Center, provides an overview of…
Maximizing Income for Rapid Rehousing Participants During COVID-19
This document, developed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with…
Use of Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Criminal Justice Settings
Following incarceration, many individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) enter back into the environment…
Principles of Community-Based Behavioral Health Services for Justice-Involved Individuals: A Research-Based Guide
Individuals with behavioral health issues are overrepresented in jails and prisons across the United…
Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) in the Criminal Justice System: Brief Guidance to the States
Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is the use of Food and Drug Administration-approved medication for the…
Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (FACT): A Service Delivery Model for Individuals With Serious Mental Illness Involved With the Criminal Justice System
Forensic assertive community treatment (FACT) is a service delivery model intended for individuals with…
Medication-Assisted Treatment Inside Correctional Facilities
This action brief describes medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and how and why it may be…
Quick Fixes for Effectively Dealing With Persons Found Incompetent to Stand Trial
Originally published in November 2007, Quick Fixes for Effectively Dealing With Persons Found Incompetent…
Learning About Us, Learning to Help Us
Learning About Us, Learning to Help Us: Supporting People with Psychiatric Disabilities in the…
Release to What? Behavioral Health-Based Strategies to Address COVID-19
Jurisdictions around the country have implemented rapid response strategies to the COVID-19 pandemic, including…
Responding to Individuals in Behavioral Health Crisis via Co-Responder Models
Cities and counties across the country are increasingly adopting promising co-responder models to improve how they engage with people experiencing behavioral health crises.
Rethinking Jails and Behavioral Health: Strategies, Challenges, and Successes Midway through the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge
Rethinking Jails and Behavioral Health: Strategies, Challenges, and Successes Midway through the MacArthur Foundation’s…
Screening and Assessment of Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System
Screening and Assessment of Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System examines screening and assessment…
Municipal Courts: An Effective Tool for Diverting People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders from the Criminal Justice System
This report describes how municipal courts can be an effective mechanism for diverting individuals who are justice involved and have a mental…
Strategies to Promote Walking Among Community-Dwelling Individuals With Major Mental Disorders
This study explores the benefits of walking among people with major mental disorders who…