Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) Research Highlights
Explore key Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) research findings, highlighting outcomes, costs, arrests, and hospitalizations.
TOPIC: Evidence-Based Practices
From Planning to Practice: Insights From a Survey of Crisis Stabilization Centers—2026 Update
This resource examines the diverse approaches jurisdictions are taking to establish essential crisis stabilization centers.
What Is Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT)? Overview Infographic
This visual provides an overview of assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) and explains how court-ordered care supports recovery, stability, and community safety.
What Is Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT): Frequently Asked Questions
This fact sheet, “What Is Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT): Frequently Asked Questions,” provides answers to frequently asked questions about AOT.
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.
Resources for Transition-Age Young Adults and Their Providers Series
Resources for Transition-Age Young Adults and Their Providers Series provides information for both young adults transitioning out of pediatric care and the providers working with them.
Creating Environments for a Good Night’s Sleep Series
Creating Environments for a Good Night’s Sleep Series explores challenges and potential solutions for achieving adequate sleep.
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.
Understanding the Population of People with Frequent Jail Contact Microsite
Understanding the Population of People with Frequent Jail Contact was mixed-methods project that examined the flow of people with frequent jail contact through the criminal legal system across three counties in the United States.
Graphic Recording: 2022 Safety and Justice Challenge IMPACT Network
These graphic notes highlight topics including trauma, peer services, correctional facility care, 988, and more to improve public health and safety outcomes for individuals with behavioral health needs.
The School Responder Model Podcast Series
Program to Achieve Wellness Archive
From 2015 to 2018, Policy Research operated the Program to Achieve Wellness (PAW). PAW, a national program, was designed to operationalize SAMHSA’s existing wellness initiative.
Practical Advice on Jail Diversion
SMVF TA Center Webinars
Maximizing Income for Rapid Rehousing Participants During COVID-19
Use of Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Criminal Justice Settings
Principles of Community-Based Behavioral Health Services for Justice-Involved Individuals: A Research-Based Guide
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 …
SAMHSA Criminal Justice YouTube Playlist
Medication-Assisted Treatment Inside Correctional Facilities
Peer Support Roles Across the Sequential Intercept Model
This tool provides an overview of how people with lived experience, or peers, can provide support to individuals in contact with the criminal justice system at each intercept of the Sequential Intercept Model.
Learning About Us, Learning to Help Us
Getting Inside the Black Box: Understanding How Jail Diversion Works
Best Practices for Creating a Mentally Healthy Workplace
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.