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Stepping Up and Data-Driven Justice: Using and Sharing Data Across Health, Human Services and Justice Systems to Improve Responses for People who Have Mental Illnesses
The first in a two-part webinar series with Data-Driven Justice, this webinar focused on the collection, management and sharing of data and addressed primary challenges counties often face in these efforts. Subject matter experts discussed how they implemented processes to collect, share, integrate and analyze data on people involved in multiple county systems. Read More
Stepping Up 101 – A Primer for Veterans Justice Outreach Specialists
This webinar introduced Veterans Justice Outreach (VJO) specialists to the Stepping Up initiative and gave an overview for how VJO specialists can play a role in connecting veterans who have serious mental illness to treatment and support services after release from jail Read More
Three Steps to Identifying and Collecting Data on People with Mental Illnesses
This webinar gave an overview of the recommended approach for identifying and collecting data on people with mental illness in jails. The three steps include: 1) using a shared definition of serious mental illness across justice and behavioral health systems; 2) screening people booked into jail using a validated screening tool for serious mental illness and referring people who screen positive for assessment; and 3) recording screening and assessment information electronically and regularly reporting out on this population Read More
Stepping Up Your Efforts to Reduce Mental Illness in Jails
This webinar gave an overview of how counties can start or re-engage their Stepping Up planning and implementation process, following the Stepping Up Six Questions Framework Read More
Four Key Measures 4: Reducing Recidivism for People with Mental Illnesses in Jails
This webinar focused on how counties can track data on recidivism and how counties can implement interventions to reduce recidivism for people with serious mental illness Read More
Four Key Measures 3: Increasing the Number of People with Mental Illnesses Connected to Treatment
This webinar focused on how counties can track connections to care and explored strategies for how counties can increase connections to care Read More
Four Key Measures 2: Shortening the Length of Stay in Jail for People with Mental Illnesses
This webinar focused on how counties can measure average length of stay at the jail and how counties can shorten average length of stay at the jail for people with mental illness Read More
Four Key Measures 1: Reducing the Number of People with Mental Illnesses Booked into Jails
This webinar focused on how counties can measure bookings at the jail and how counties can reduce jail bookings for people with mental illness Read More
Stepping Up: Collect Data to Drive Change
Stepping Up is helping counties collect accurate, accessible data on the number of people entering their jails who have mental illnesses, a critical first step for developing a comprehensive plan to create meaningful reductions in the number of people in jails who have mental illnesses. Read More