Johnson County Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program

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 county of Johnson will use the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (JMHCP) grant funds ($249,761) to effectively divert the mentally ill from the criminal justice system to community-based mental health services. The focus population for this project will be adults who are 18 years and older who come into contact with law enforcement for a mental-health related call that could result in criminal charges for a misdemeanor or non-violent crime. CA/NCF