Developing a Comprehensive State Plan for Mental Health – Criminal Justice Collaboration

Program outline from the National GAINS Center on developing a recovery-oriented, consumer-driven system of care for justice-involved people with mental illness.

Moving Toward Evidence-Based Housing Programs for Persons with Mental Illness in Contact with the Criminal Justice System

Report of an expert panel that met in June 2005.

Towards a Blueprint to Respond to the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Recommendations on Adult Criminal Justice Diversion

Notes from an Expert Panel that met in October 2003.

Organizational Readiness for Treatment Innovations

This article from the Institute of Behavioral Research at Texas Christian University focuses on the process of program change, organization readiness for change assessments, and other references.

Sensitizing Providers to the Effects of Incarceration on Treatment and Risk Management (SPECTRM)

An approach to increase the mental health worker\'s capacity to provide quality clinical work in therapeutic settings involving incarceration and re-entry.

Congress Restores the Americans With Disabilities Act to Its Original Intent

The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) was created to prohibit discrimination based on disability. Although many individuals filed claims alleging discrimination in the workplace based on disability, the federal courts, led by the U.S. Supreme Court, adopted an increasingly constricted interpretation of key provisions of the ADA. As a result, many individuals with serious impairments were found by the courts to not be disabled. In 2008 Congress overturned these court decisions by enacting the ADA Amendments Act. These amendments overrule several decisions by the United States Supreme Court that narrowed the applicability of the ADA, and they restore the ADA to its original intent.