Using Coalitions to Foster Jail Diversion

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Using Coalitions to Foster Jail Diversion

• Presented by NAMI Maine
• Carol Carothers and Karen Lenzen

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Outline

• How did NAMI Maine develop successful diversion
  coalitions
  
• How did we blend CIT into those efforts
• Raising money
• The Sequential Intercept Model

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Precipitating events

• 2/2000 James Thomas, A teens last trip to
  prison
  
• Ken Moore Maine Times article

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Step OneResearch

• National
• Up the River, Travels in a Prison Nation
• New Jack
• Crazy
• online
• State press clippings
• Meet with Sheriffs Association
• Local jail survey

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Step Two Awareness

• Generate press
• Op Eds
• Press calls pitch stories
• Release report
• Collect names of callers

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Step Three Planning

• What is needed?
• Who can help decide what is needed list of
  partners that will be needed
  
• Issue invitation to join coalition.

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First meeting
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NAMI MAINES COALITIONS

• 2000 to 2003 The Coalition on Mental Illness,
  Substance Abuse and Criminal Justice.
  
• Mission and members
• Statewide

• Drafted omnibus legislation
• Members review
• Hired lobbyist
• Followed first legislation and subsequent study
• Mission accomplished - disbanded

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Cumberland County Coalition

• 2001- Present
• Existing Coalition
• CIT grant
• DOT grant

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Penobscot County Coalition

• 2003 - Present
• Sheriff call for help
• NIMH grant
• Penquis CAP grant

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Sequential Intercept Model

• Model for organizing discussion of diversion and
  linkage alternatives and for systematically
  addressing criminalization
  
• Based on public health principles
• Developed in Ohio and adopted by GAINS Center
• Where to intervene at what intercept.

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Intercepts

• One Law enforcement and emergency services
• Two Initial Hearings and Detention
• Three Jails and Courts
• Four Reentry from jails, prisons, hospitals
• Five Community corrections and Community support

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PENOBSCOT SEQUENTIAL INTERCEPT MAP REVISED
MARCH 2007

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Action Plan
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Penobscot Accomplishments

• Creation of first boundary spanner positions
  with no new funding
  
• Pilot project developed data tracked
• Peer support grant obtained
• CIT jail and police force

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Kennebec Coalition

• Call to Chief Justice
• Conversion Foundation grant
• Road blocks
• Coalition building
• Co-occurring Court
• US DOJ grant
• Steering Committee
• Summitt

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Joint Action Plan

• Legislative requirement
• Penobscot is the model
• Statewide steering committee

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Androscoggin Coalition

• 2006-Present
• SIM as guide
• Penobscot as model

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CIT IN MAINE

• CIT COALITIONS

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History

• 2000 first grants
• 2001 Portland 8 officers
• 2002-2004 Add sites grant writing
• 2004 2 Jail based CIT grants
• 2005-2007 Expansion grant with research
• 2007 obtained state funding

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CIT process

• Organize local collaboration
• Sell CIT
• CIT as first collaboration or part of existing
  collaboration
  
• CIT expansion
• CIT marketing

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Expansion Grant

• Ten funders
• LIFP experience
• Add 8 jails, 6 communities over two years
• Research replicability
• Data collection difficulties
• Steering Committee for sustainability
• Newsletter
• Database of all CIT officers

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CIT Lessons learned

• Leadership is everything
• Maintenance needed
• Officer Fatigue

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Looking Ahead

• Portlands sustainability plan?
• To Stipend or Not to Stipend
• Awards and other recognition
• CIT is THE backbone

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Funding

• Local funders
• Conversion foundations
• Byrne Grants
• Federal grants (Samhsa, USDOJ)
• State government buy in
• Legislation

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Maine funding

• DOT Samhsa
• Co-occurring Court U.S. DOJ
• Penobscot County NIMH
• CIT 6 local foundations, Eli Lilly, Bristol
  Meyers Squibb. State government
  

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When you need funding

• Government list serve for grant announcements.
• Gains Center
• Local funders (Maine Philanthropy Center and
  grant makers directory)
  
• Foundation Center Directory
• NAMI opportunity grants
• Pharma

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Things we did without funding

• Established coalitions
• SIM for counties
• OP Eds, Jail surveys, reports in 2000, 2002,
  2007
  
• Started a co-occurring court
• Mucho press considerable awareness
• Changed the agenda for the state

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LESSONS LEARNED

• Coalitions can change the world if the right
  people are at the table
  
• Planning keeps coalitions alive
• Without strong leadership coalitions dont
  continue
  
• Visible accomplishments keep things going.
• Thank god for SIM

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Lessons learned

• You can do a lot without new money.
• Coalitions may have a natural life and then end
  when their work is done.
  
• Coalitions require strong leadership and
  maintenance
  
• Planning and vision are important
• When stuck, SIM

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TWO YEAR AGENDA

• Sustainability (legislation)
• Maintenance
• Individual officer recognition
• Individual program recognition
• Data collection
• Release of research re CIT in jail
• Certification