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A Call for State Action: Invest in Mental Health Services for Community Wellness
A Model of Static and Dynamic Sex Offender Risk Assessment
California Judicial Council's Task Force for Criminal Justice Collaboration on Mental Health Issues - Full Final Report​

• Recommendations for Changing the Paradigm for Persons with Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System

Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle with Housing First: Results from the Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative
​Health Care for California's Jail Population

• Mia Bird and Shannon McConville, Public Policy Institute of California, June 2014

Housing First Breaks the Homelessness-Jail Cycle
A Guide to California's Public Mental Health System

• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Successful Reentry/Transition from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: Identification of Barriers and Solutions to Address Them - CCJBH

​California Budget and Public Policy

Ballotpedia
California Budget Project

• Information on the State and Federal budgets

California Legislative Analyst Office

• Nonpartisan Fiscal and Policy Advisor

Justice Center, The Council of State Governments

• 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
The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare

​Crisis Intervention Team (CIT)

Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST)

​Forensic Mental Health Organizations and Projects

Council on Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health
First Responder Support Network

• The WCPR program is for first responders whose lives have been impacted by their work experience.

International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology
Global Institute for Forensic Research

​Government Organizations

Bureau of Justice Assistance
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
California Department of State Hospitals

​Mental Health Organizations

California Access Coalition
California Council of Community Behavioral Health Agencies
California Hope
California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions
​California Psychological Association
​Connection Coalition
County Behavioral Health Directors Association
Mental Health Association in California
​Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission

​Miscellaneous

California Association of Psychiatric Technicians
California Forward

• helping to create a "smart" government

California Healthcare Foundation
California State Association of Counties
California State Sheriff's Association
Californians for Safety and Justice

• 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

Clinical Trials Index
US National Institutes of Health
Evidence Based Best Practices Webinars, Joyfields Institute
National Association of Counties
Pretrial Justice Institute
Prison Law Office

• Protecting the constitutional rights of California prisoners

Principles of Community-based Behavioral Health Services for Justice-involved Individuals: A Research-based Guide​

Sex Offense

Association for Treatment of Sexual Abusers
California Coalition on Sexual Offending