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MENTAL HEALTH COURTS 

Contact  Information 

• Mental Health Coordinator Contact List
   

Resources / Information 

                    The Essential Elements of a Mental Health Court 
               The Council of State Governments Justice Center has released an
               updated edition of “Improving Responses to People with Mental
               Illnesses: The Essential Elements of a Mental Health Court.”
               The publication is the result of many rounds of rigorous review and
               describes the 10 important program elements that jurisdictions should
               consider when planning, implementing, or enhancing a mental health
               court. 

• Idaho Participtes in National Mental Health Court Conference
   (Excerpt from the Judicial/Administrative Newsletter, July 2005)
   

• Parenting in Dependency Drug Court - PDF
  White Paper - BY JAIME L. DICE, ANGELIKA H. CLAUSSEN, LYNNE F. KATZ, AND JUDGE JERI B. COHEN
   

• A Guide to Collecting Mental Health Outcome Data - PDF   
   (A publication of the Council of State Governments, prepared for the Bureau of Justice Assistance, May 2005)
   
  

Mental Health Courts- Links

•  Mental Health - A Report of the Surgeon General  

   

•  Bureau of Justice Assistance Mental Health Courts Program -Concensus Project
   

•  Presidents New Freedom Commission on Mental Health - Reports
   

•  American Psychiatric Association - News Release
  American Psychiatric Association Unveils Blueprint to Save America’s Crumbling Mental Health System....
   
  

•  American Psychiatric Association - Report - PDF


 

• The following  information is organized into three sections. The (1.) first section links to publications that provide an analysis of mental health courts or mental health court evaluations, the (2.) second section provides links to individual mental health court evaluations, and the (3.) third section provides links to additional resources on mental health courts/problem-solving courts.

  1.    Analysis of Mental Health Courts/Evaluations
  
  2.    Individual Mental Health Court Evaluations
  
  3.    Additional Resources on Mental Health Courts