Improve rates of self-sufficient employment for individuals leaving jail.
Offender Reentry Plan March 2011
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Build capacity of mental health courts to direct more individuals with mental illness from jail to more appropriate interventions.
Assess individual mental health needs of inmates using and evidence-based tool.
Collaborate with RSN* agencies to provide individual jail-based mental health treatment.
Provide on-going open-door therapeutic groups for specific mental health issues.
Ensure that jails provide access to the most appropriate and effective psychotropic medication.
Encourage the use of trauma-informed interventions for current and former inmates.
Educate community mental health providers to understand the psychological effects of justice-system involvement on mental health treatment.
Expand capacity of Forensic Assertive Community Treatment teams to work with high-need jail-utilizers.
Increase the use evidence based mental health, chemical dependency, and primary care screening, assessment and treatment services in the criminal justice system.
Ensure access to effective community based mental health, chemical dependency, and primary care treatment.