BJA FY 16 Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Training and Technical Assistance Program: Collaborative County Approaches to Reducing the Prevalence of Individuals with Mental Disorders in Jail

The Bureau of Justice Assistance's Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Training and Technical Assistance 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 implementation and expansion funding through JMHCP. The primary goal of the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Training and Technical Assistance Program is to provide a comprehensive array of training and technical assistance services to assist the JMHCP grantees. NCA/NCF

The Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Training and Technical Assistance Program (JMHCP) is funded through the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act of 2004 (MIOTCRA) (Pub. L. 108-414) and the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 2008 (Pub. L. 110-416). The primary goal of the JMHCP Training and Technical Assistance Program is to provide a comprehensive array of TTA services to JMHCP grant recipients to assist them in meeting their program objectives, which include: 1) to increase and maintain jail capacity for violent offenders, by developing a system-wide coordinated approach to safely reduce the prevalence of low risk individuals with mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse and mental illness in local jails; 2) to free up law enforcement time to focus on responding to violent crime, and to improve officer and citizen safety during service calls involving people with mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse and mental illness; and 3) to increase public safety and reduce recidivism among high risk people with mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse and mental illness. NCA/NCF