On June 28, 2012 the Supreme Court of the United States of America (SCOTUS) ...
PRA Work
rssStates work to Improve Front-End Diversion for Youth with Behavioral Health Needs
On June 27-28, 2012 the kick-off meeting for Improving Diversion Policies and Programs for ...
Engaging Misdemeanants in Jail Diversion Programs
One of the biggest challenges in jail diversion work is engaging misdemeanants, especially repetitive ones. In ...
A New Challenge for America’s Prisons: An Exploding Aging Population
Today, our nation’s correctional facilities face an unprecedented challenge: Meeting the needs of a ...
Health Care Reform and Criminal Justice: Find a Coach in COCHS
Persons in jail are more likely to be homeless and not to have health ...
What happens to kids picked up for drunk driving?
You would expect this to be an easy question to answer. But that is ...
Collaboration Aims to Improve Juvenile Justice System Responses to Youth with Behavioral Needs
The National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice, at Policy Research, Inc., and ...
SAMHSA’s Working Definition of Recovery from Mental Disorders and Substance Use Disorders
As LaVerne mentioned in her Are You My Peer? blog post on 5/24, SAMHSA ...
Toward Creating a Trauma-Informed Criminal Justice System
Recognition of the high rates of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder among justice-involved individuals ...
Indigent Defense for Defendants with Mental Illnesses
In May 2012, the National Institute of Justice issued a research solicitation for indigent ...
Health Care Reform: One train not to miss
Just when many states and communities were beginning to figure out how to ...
Are You My Peer and Does it Really Matter?
Late last year SAMHSA issued a new definition of recovery and support services. This ...