GAINS Center
www.gainscenter.samhsa.gov
The National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System was created in 1995, and refunded in 2000, as a national locus for the collection and dissemination of information about effective mental health and substance abuse services for people with co-occurring disorders in contact with the justice system.
GAINS
EBP Announces Availability of the Brief Jail Mental Health Screen For more information please see: http://www.gainscenter.samhsa.gov/pdfs/eNews/BJMHS.pdf
ODMH
www.mh.state.oh.us
The primary mission of the Ohio Department of Mental Health is to ensure that quality mental health care is available in communities to all Ohioans, particularly individuals with serious mental illness. Last year, Ohio's community mental health systems provided services to 250,000 people, including more than 75,000 adults who are severely disabled by mental illness and 70,000 children. The mission of the Office of Forensic Services is to ensure quality mental health care is provided to all persons with mental illness involved in the criminal justice system by improving assessment, treatment and continuity of care; increasing community-based services and enhancing communication, education and cooperation between mental health, criminal justice, and other state departments; in order to reduce institutional recidivism, address public safety concerns as well as individual, family and community functioning.
Supreme Court of Ohio Advisory Committee on Mental Illness in the Courts
www.sconet.state.oh.us/ACMIC
The Ohio Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Mental Illness in the Courts was formed to address the problem of criminalization of people with serious mental disorders. The ACMIC is comprised of representatives from the Ohio Department of Mental Health, Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, the Ohio Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services, judges, law enforcement, mediation experts, housing and treatment providers, consumer advocacy groups, and other officials from across the state. The Advisory Committee is working to establish local task forces in each county to bring similar local representatives together to collaborate and work on the issues of the mentally ill in the criminal justice system. Each county is encouraged to start a mental health specialty docket to deal with the issues, but have also found that the collaboration that results when all these groups get together goes far beyond the courtroom. The Advisory Committee provides guidance, resources, materials and information to the local task forces. They provide role models of other successful mental health court dockets, encourage Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) for the police officers who deal with the mentally ill, and pass on grant and other funding opportunities to the task forces.
OCJS
http://www.ocjs.ohio.gov
Ohio Revised Code 181.52 establishes the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services (OCJS) as the lead criminal justice planning agency for the state. Through its research, technology, grants administration and programmatic initiatives, OCJS serves agencies and communities committed to reducing and preventing crime across Ohio. Service is at the core of OCJS' vision, with collaboration the driver that allows the agency to remain ahead of criminal justice issues. The outcome of this service and collaboration is the excellence Ohio enjoys in a broad range of justice products such as funding, technology tools, training and publications. OCJS customers include the Administration, legislature, law enforcement and criminal justice agencies, victim groups and citizens.
NAMI Ohio
www.namiohio.org
NAMI Ohio (the National Alliance on Mental Illness of
Ohio) was created in 1982 by
a small group of family members to provide mutual support, education, and advocacy for individuals affected by serious brain disorders and for their families. We now include family members, mental health consumers, providers, community mental health boards, mental health organizations and other supporters among our growing membership. As a successful grassroots organization advocating for mental health issues, NAMI Ohio has a winning history of affecting public policy and legislation regarding care and resources for persons with serious mental illness. NAMI Ohio members testify before the state legislature, educate business and education leaders, and sit on state planning and advisory committees, county ADAMH/CMHRS Boards, and various task forces. NAMI Ohio
insures that individuals with
mental illnesses and their families are represented in places
where decisions are made.
Summit Alcohol Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services (ADM) Board
www.admboard.org
The Summit County ADM Board is the planner, manager and funder of comprehensive behavioral health care services that are provided through contracts with its certified provider agencies. In recognition of its efforts to promote jail diversion programs for people with severe and persistent mental disorders, the ADM Board receives funding from the Ohio Department of Mental Health to support the CJ/CCoE. In 2003 the Summit County ADM Board received the Bronze Achievement Award from the American Psychiatric Association in recognition of its systematic efforts to decriminalize persons with mental illness.
NEOUCOM
http://www.neoucom.edu
NEOUCOM is a community-based, state medical school that offers a combined B.S./M.D. program that allows students to graduate with their B.S./M.D. in as few as six years. NEOUCOM with its campus in Rootstown, Ohio is the only medical school in the country that has a partnership with three state universities and 17 hospitals. This relationship allows the College to focus on its mission of providing highly trained physicians oriented to the practice of medicine at the community level, while at the same time remaining cost-effective for students and the taxpayers of Ohio. NEOUCOM has collaborative arrangements with other colleges and universities to offer graduate-level education in biomedical sciences and biomedical engineering, and a master of public health program. NEOUCOM has a contract with the Summit County ADM Board to operate the CJ/CCoE.
ODADAS
www.odadas.state.oh.us
The vision of ODADAS vision is to "... provide nationally recognized leadership in establishing, brokering and marketing quality alcohol and other drug addiction prevention and treatment services accessible to all Ohioans within a system that promotes innovation, accountability and value."
ODADAS offers Cross-Disciplinary Training (CDT). CDT is a training event that is planned, developed and facilitated by trained professionals for personnel in agencies communities and institutions that work with the substance-abusing offender. CDT fosters understanding, bridges gaps and encourages collaboration among the systems that work with the substance-abusing offender. Their target is to teach criminal justice, court and treatment professionals to work together more effectively. For more information, contact Teri Gardner, Training Officer at Gardner@ada.state.oh.us
Consensus Project
www.consensusproject.org
The Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project
The Council of State Governments (CSG) developed the Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project in response to requests from state government officials for recommendations to improve the criminal justice system's response to people with mental illness. State government officials identified this issue as particularly pressing for several reasons. Practitioners and advocates have approached lawmakers in capitols across the country explaining the urgency of the problem. Newspaper headlines describe tragedies involving people with mental illness that seemingly could have been prevented. And, the current approach to responding to people with mental illness has placed an enormous strain on criminal justice and state budget resources.
The Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project Report is the result of dozens of days of meetings among leading criminal justice and mental health policymakers and practitioners from across the country, surveys administered to state and local government officials in communities in 50 states, hundreds of hours of interviews with administrators of innovative programs, and thousands of hours reviewing materials describing research, promising programs, policies, and legislation.
Other CCoE's
Center for Innovative Practices (Multi-Systemic Therapy)
http://www.cipohio.org
Co-occurring Substance Abuse and Mental Illness
http://www.ohiosamiccoe.case.edu
Cluster-based planning
http://www.ohiocouncil-bhp.org
Mental Illness/Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities
http://www.ohiomidd.org
