Bureau of Justice Assistance JUSTICE AND MENTAL HEALTH COLLABORATIONS

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Bureau of Justice AssistanceJUSTICE AND MENTAL
HEALTHCOLLABORATIONS

• Presentation by
• Elizabeth Griffith
• Associate Deputy Director, BJA

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DOJ Office of Justice Programs (OJP)

• Provides federal leadership to
• -Develop the nation's capacity to prevent and
  control crime
• -Improve the criminal and juvenile justice
  systems
• -Increase knowledge about crime and related
  issues and
• -Assist crime victims

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OJP Components

• Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
  Prevention (OJJDP)
• National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
• Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
• Office for Victims of Crime
• Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO)

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Bureau of Justice Assistance

• Goals
• (1) reduce and prevent crime, violence, and drug
  abuse and
• (2) improve the functioning of the criminal
  justice system.

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Program Purposes

• Mobilize communities to implement innovative,
  collaborative efforts to bring system-wide
  improvements in the way that they address
  offenders with mental disabilities or illness.
• Involve (at the minimum) the educational system,
  recreation system, mental health system,
  substance abuse programs employment and housing
  services

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Mental Health Courts

• Program began in 2002
• Limited funding
• -2002 (4 million)
• -2003 (3 million).
• -2005 (450K)
• Agency Commitment

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Mental Health Courts

• Oversee 37 active grantees receiving 7 million
  in mental health court demonstration funding
• Support 63 jurisdictions others involved in
  mental health problem solving courts without BJA
  funding.

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Technical Assistance

• National Conferences
• Council of State Governments
• Publications
• Training Curricula
• 2006 Expansion to Law Enforcement

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Partnerships

• SAMHSA
• NIC
• OJJDP

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Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime
Reduction Act

• PL-108-414
• Authorized in 2005
• Funding 2006 4.5 million

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MIOTA Purpose

• To foster local collaborations among the
  criminal justice, mental health treatment, and
  substance abuse systems to increase public safety
  and access to treatment.

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MHCJC Goals

• (1) Protect public safety by (early) intervention
  to treatment for people with mental illness or a
  co-occurring disorder who become involved with
  the criminal justice / juvenile justice system
• (2) Provide courts, including existing and new
  mental health courts, with appropriate mental
  health and substance abuse treatment options

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MHCJC Goals (2)

• (3) Maximize use of alternatives to prosecution
  through graduated sanctions, as appropriate for
  the client, in cases involving nonviolent
  offenders with mental illness
• (4) Promote adequate training for criminal
  justice system personnel about mental illness and
  substance abuse disorders and the appropriate
  responses to people with such illnesses and to
  promote adequate training for mental health and
  substance abuse treatment personnel about
  criminal offenders with mental illness or
  co-occurring substance abuse disorder and the
  appropriate response to such offenders in the
  criminal justice system

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MHCJC Goals (3)

• (5) Promote communication among adult or juvenile
  justice personnel, mental health and co-occurring
  mental illness and substance abuse disorder
  treatment personnel, nonviolent offenders with
  mental illness and co-occurring mental illness
  and substance abuse disorders and support
  services such as housing, job placement,
  community, schools, child welfare,
  transportation, faith-based, and crime victims
  organizations and
• (6) Promote communication, collaboration, and
  intergovernmental partnerships among municipal,
  county, and State elected officials with respect
  to mentally ill offenders.

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Grants

• Solicitation
• Grant Types
• Planning
• Planning and Implementation
• Implementation

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Funding

• Funding activities must focus on the program
  goals, e.g. partnerships with
• -Law Enforcement
• -Courts
• -Corrections and Reentry
• -Training
• -State Collaboration

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Eligible Applicants

• State, tribal or local criminal justice agency
• Must partner with mental health partner

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Training and Technical Assistance

• Council of State Governments
• http//consensusproject.org/

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TA Resources

• Publications
• Training
• Essential Elements
• Mentoring

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Related Projects

• NACo
• -Discharge Planning for Mentally Ill
• -State and local partnerships
• Jail Reentry Roundtable
• NIC Jails Reentry

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BJA Contact Info

• For more info
• Robert Hendricks,
• Policy Advisor for Mental Health
• Bureau of Justice Assistance
• 810 Seventh St, NW
• Washington DC 20531
• 202-305-1909
• Email Robert.Hendricks_at_usdoj.gov