Fifth Judicial District Justice and Mental Health Collaboration

The Bureau of Justice Assistance's (BJA) Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (JMHCP) is funded through the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-414), which was reauthorized in 2008 (Public Law 110-416). The primary purpose of JMHCP is 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 mental health and other treatment services for those individuals with mental illness or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Jurisdictions are eligible to apply for planning, planning and implementation, or expansion funding through JMHCP.

The Fifth Judicial District Court of Minnesota will use the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (JMHCP) grant funds ($50,000) to conduct planning to determine how to better address the needs of the adult offenders with co-occurring disorders who are: (a) being released from prison, or (b) participating in an adult drug treatment court, in a rural twelve county area in southwestern Minnesota. CA/NCF