Resources

Articles and Research

A Call for State Action: Invest in Mental Health Services for Community Wellness

http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2011/RAND_MG1165.pdf

A Model of Static and Dynamic Sex Offender Risk Assessment

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/236217.pdf
Study published by the USDOJ National Institute of Justice.

A Way Forward: Diverting People with Mental Illness from Inhumane and Expensive Jail into Community-Based Treatment that Works

http://dover-files.com/12/MENTAL-HEALTH-JAILS-REPORT.pdf

ACLU of Southern California and the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, July 2014

Behavioral Sciences & the Law Issues
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/3512/home?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
Access full text articles from Wiley Interscience

California Judicial Council's Task Force for Criminal Justice Collaboration on Mental Health Issues - Full Final Report

http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/Mental_Health_Task_Force_Report_042011.pdf
Recommendations for Changing the Paradigm for Persons with Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System

California Judicial Council's Task Force for Criminal Justice Collaboration on Mental Health Issues - Summary of Task Force Final Report

http://fmhac.net/Assets/Documents/W2D/W2DVII/2013%20Task%20Force%20Summary%20Report%20W2D.pdf

California Sex Offender Management Board Report on Residence Restrictions

http://fmhac.net/Assets/Documents/Policy/CSOMB%20Residence%20Restriction%20Report.pdf

Costs of Incarcerating Youth with Mental Illness

http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/COMIO/docs/Costs_of_Incarcerating_Youth_with_Mental_Illness.pdf

Edward Cohen and Jane Pfeifer

One of the products of ongoing collaboration between the Chief Probation Officers of California (CPOC) and the California Mental Health Directors Association (CMHDA), this study's purpose is to inform public policy development by analyzing costs and contexts related to incarcerating youth with mental illness and co-occurring mental illness/substance use disorders in California detention facilities. Information obtained from this study will serve to advocate for better services in order to prevent the inappropriate criminalization of youth who would be better served in mental health treatment settings, to improve services to youth who must be separated from the community, and to ensure continuity of mental health care upon re-entry of such youth to their communities.

Effectiveness of a Mental Health Court in Reducing Criminal Recidivism and Violence

http://fmhac.net/Assets/Documents/Articles/APA%20SF%20MHC%20Study%202007.pdf
American Journal of Psychiatry, 2007 - Dale E. McNiel, Ph.D., Renée L. Binder, M.D.

Health and Prisoner Reentry: How Physical, Mental, and Substance Abuse Conditions Shape the Process of Reintegration

http://fmhac.net/Assets/Documents/Articles/Prisoner%20Re-Entry%20The%20Urban%20Institute%20Feb%2008.pdf
Kamala Mallik-Kane, Christy A. Visher, Justice Policy Center, Urban Institute, February 2008

Health Care for California's Jail Population

http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_quick.asp?i=1105
Mia Bird and Shannon McConville, Public Policy Institute of California, June 2014

Juvenile Court Statistics 2005

http://fmhac.net/Assets/Documents/Articles/Juv%20Ct%20Stats%202005%20(OJJDP).pdf
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention - Describes delinquency cases handled between 1985 and 2005 and petitioned status offense cases handled between 1995 and 2005 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction. Courts with juvenile jurisdiction may handle a variety of matters, including child abuse and neglect, traffic violations, child support, and adoptions. This Report, the 77th report in the Juvenile Court Statistics series, focuses on cases involving juveniles charged with law violations (delinquency or status offenses). The data used in the analyses were contributed to the National Juvenile Court Data Archive by more than 2,100 courts with jurisdiction over 80% of the juvenile population in 2005.

Juvenile Justice Reform: Realigning Responsibilities

http://fmhac.net/Assets/Documents/Articles/Juvenile%20Justice%20LHC%202008.pdf
Little Hoover Commission, July 2008

Mental Health Courts: A Primer for Policymakers and Practitioners

http://fmhac.net/Assets/Documents/Articles/MHC%20Primer%20(BJA).pdf
Bureau of Justice Assistance

Mentally Ill Juveniles in Local Custody: Issues and Analysis

http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/COMIO/docs/Menatlly_Ill_Juveniles_In_Local_Custody.pdf
A resource paper developed by the California Corrections Standards Authority (CSA), June 2011

Navigating the Currents

http://fmhac.net/Assets/Documents/Articles/NavigatingTheCurrents.pdf

A Guide to California's Public Mental Health System

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
http://www.ojjdp.gov/

San Francisco's Behavioral Health Court: On the Cutting Edge

http://fmhac.net/Assets/Documents/Articles/SF%20BHC%20Oct%202005.pdf
San Francisco Medicine Magazine, October 2005 - Honorable Herbert Donaldson and Jennifer Johnson

State of California Board of State and Community Corrections - 2011 Public Safety Realignment Act

http://www.bscc.ca.gov/downloads/2011_public_safety_realignment_act_-_second_annual_report_on_the_implementation_of_community_corrections_partnership_plans.pdf
Second Annual Report on the Implementation of Community Corrections Partnership Plans

State of California Board of State and Community Corrections - First Annual Report

http://www.bscc.ca.gov/downloads/Report_on_the_Implementation_of_Community_Corrections_Partnership_Plans.pdf

The GAINS Center - Practical Advice on Jail Diversion

http://fmhac.net/Assets/Documents/W2D/GAINS%20Center%20PracticalAdviceOnJailDiversion.pdf

The GAINS Center - Sequential Intercept Model (brochure)

http://fmhac.net/Assets/Documents/W2D/GAINS%20BH%20SIM%20Brochure%20Rev%2010%202013.pdf

The Mentally Ill, Behind Bars

http://fmhac.net/Assets/Documents/Articles/MI%20Behind%20Bars%20Jan%202007.pdf

New York Times Opinion article, January 15, 2007 - Bernard E. Harcourt, Professor, Law and Criminology, University of Chicago
The Urban Institute

http://www.urban.org/
NonPartisan Economic and Social Policy Research

When Mental Illness Meets the Criminal Justice System

http://fmhac.net/Assets/Documents/Articles/MI%20Crim%20Justice%20Oct%202005.pdf

San Francisco Medicine Magazine, October 2005 - Jo Robinson, MFT

California Budget and Public Policy

Ballotpedia
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

California Budget Project

http://calbudgetcenter.org/
Information on the State and Federal budgets

California Legislative Analyst Office

http://www.lao.ca.gov/
Nonpartisan Fiscal and Policy Advisor

Justice Center, The Council of State Governments

https://csgjusticecenter.org/
A national nonprofit organization that serves policymakers at the local, state, and federal levels from all branches of government. Provides practical, nonpartisan advice and consensus-driven strategies, informed by available evidence, to increase public safety and strengthen communities

Search Assembly and Senate Bills

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/bilinfo.html

The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare

https://www.thenationalcouncil.org/

Crisis Intervention Team (CIT)

Essential Elements of a CIT Program (Bureau of Justice Assistance)

http://fmhac.net/Assets/Documents/CIT/CIT%20Essential%20Elements%20BJA.pdf

Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST)

http://www.post.ca.gov/

Forensic Mental Health Organizations and Projects

Council on Mentally Ill Offenders

http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/COMIO/index.html

First Responder Support Network

http://www.frsn.org/
The WCPR program is for first responders whose lives have been impacted by their work experience.

International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology

http://www.aa4cfp.org/

Government Organizations

Bureau of Justice Assistance

https://www.bja.gov/Default.aspx

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/

California Department of State Hospitals

http://www.dsh.ca.gov/

Mental Health Courts

Mental Health Court Guidelines

http://fmhac.net/Assets/Documents/Articles/Marin%20MHC%20Guidelines.pdf
The Marin County, CA Mental Health Court guidelines were created in 2004 to guide the mental health court process. The mission of a mental health court is to preserve community safety, reduce recidivism and encourage mentally ill offenders to build more successful lives for themselves through the application of well-informed judicial supervision. The guidelines are provided to assist other communities with the establishment of similar court models.

Mental Health Organizations

California Council of Community Mental Health Agencies

http://www.cccmha.org/

Mental Health Association in California

http://www.mhac.org/

Miscellaneous

AB109 (Realignment) Information, CDCR

http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/realignment/local_resources.html

California Association of Psychiatric Technicians

http://www.psychtechs.net/

California Forward

http://www.cafwd.org/
helping to create a "smart" government

California State Association of Counties

http://www.counties.org/

California State Sheriff's Association

http://www.calsheriffs.org/

Californians for Safety and Justice

http://www.safeandjust.org/
nonprofit working with Californians from all walks of life to replace prison and justice system waste with common sense solutions that create safe neighborhoods and save public dollars

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