Award Information
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2009, $50,000)
The Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (JMHCP) seeks to increase public safety through an innovative, cross-system, collaborative response to individuals with mental illness who come in contact with the criminal or juvenile justice systems. This program is funded through Public Law 111-8 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2009). The program is designed to increase public safety by facilitating collaboration among the criminal justice, juvenile justice, and mental health and substance abuse treatment systems to increase access to services for offenders with mental illness. Activities under this initiative will encourage early intervention for 'system-involved' individuals with mental illness; provide new and existing mental health courts with various treatment options; maximize diversion opportunities for non-violent offenders with mental illness and co-occurring disorders; promote training for justice and treatment professionals on criminal justice processed and mental health and substance abuse issues; and facilitate communication, collaboration, and the delivery of support services among justice professionals, treatment and related service providers, and governmental partners.
The Linn County Department of Health Services will use the Category I: Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Planning Grant to support the Linn County Behavioral Health Justice Task Force Project. The project will facilitate collaboration among the criminal justice, mental health, and substance abuse treatment systems in Linn County. The task force will develop a plan to promote public safety by providing appropriate services for criminal justice system involved individuals with mental illness. The final plan will include ongoing data collection and analysis strategies, systemic and strategy analysis, prioritized implementation components, a realistic management plan including interagency coordination and communication, organizational and structural changes, policies and procedures, operational guidelines and assessment, and referral tools for identification of program participants.
CA/NCF