Two new evaluations of Alaska mental health court completed. Click here for the Anchorage study and here for the Palmer study.

New Resource: Improving Responses to People with Mental Illnesses: Strategies for Effective Law Enforcement Training

Save the Date: February 8 - 11, 2009, American Probation and Parole Association (APPA) 2009 Winter Training Institute in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

CSG Justice Center Releases Essential Elements of a Specialized Law Enforcement-Based Program

New Resource: Women's Mental Health Issues Across the Criminal Justice System

Mental Health Court Learning Site Judge Stephen Goss publishes paper on rural mental health courts

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Daily Progress (VA) - Mental health system's troubles targeted
11/21/08 - "Statewide law enforcement authorities who came to Albemarle to learn about the Thomas Jefferson Area Crisis Intervention Team heard an impassioned speech from a man who has seen a flawed mental health system at work."

NPR (MO) - Reducing recidivism: New program aims to help mentally ill inmates
11/19/08 - "Over half of the inmates at the city jail have been imprisoned there at before in part due to untreated mental illness and substance abuse. But a new program at the Municipal Correctional Institution aims to break that cycle. "

The Observer (NY) - Court to address mental health issues
11/16/08 - "The Dunkirk City Mental Health Court is anticipated to start Dec. 4 and is looking to have the same type of positive effect on individuals it deals with as does the current drug court run by City Court Judge Walter Drag."

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