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Resources on Criminal Justice and Legal Issues

Convention Session Materials

• Workshop 2-A Implementing Crisis Intervention Teams for Youth, PowerPoint by Laura Usher.

CIT and Jail Diversion

• CIT for Youth Resource Center
  Includes Responding to Youth with Mental Health Needs: A CIT for Youth Implementation Manual, and other resources for the development of CIT for Youth.
• CIT Advocacy Toolkit
  This toolkit contains facts and information that local leaders need to advocate for CIT in their communities, including fact sheets about CIT and criminalization, media talking points, grant writing tools, a guide to building community partnerships, and more.
• Building Safer Communities: Improving Police Response to Persons with Mental Illness 
  This report from the International Association of Chiefs of Police calls on law enforcement leaders to take an active role in reducing the criminalization of people with mental illnesses.
• Improving Responses to People with Mental Illnesses: Tailoring Law Enforcement Initiatives to Individual Jurisdictions
  This guide from the Council on State Governments explores the program design process, including detailed examples from several communities from across the country. It is meant to assist community leaders to select or adapt program features from models that will be most effective in their communities.

Criminal Justice System

• The High Costs of Cutting Mental Health: Criminal Justice
  This fact sheet highlights the consequences of cutting mental health services on criminal justice systems and shows how states can save money and lives by investing in community mental health.
• A Guide to Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System
  NAMI's guide to assisting a loved one who is caught up in the criminal justice system.
• Developing a Comprehensive Plan for Mental Health and Criminal Justice System Collaboration: The Sequential Intercept Model
  The National GAINS Center has released an updated version of the Sequential Intercept Model for comprehensive community planning.
  

Corrections

• Corrections and Mental Health
  The National Institute of Corrections’ new website on mental health/corrections issues. 

Death Penalty

• Double Tragedies: Victims Speak Out Against the Death Penalty for People with Severe Mental Illness
  NAMI's Report on eliminating the death penalty for people living with severe mental illness, produced in collboration with Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights.

Re-entry

• “Ensuring Timely Access to Medicaid and SSI/SSDI for People with Mental Illness Released from Prison”
  This fact sheet from the Council of State Governments' Reentry Policy Council presents case studies of how states have improved access to SSI/SSDI for people living with mental illness re-entering the community after prison.
• “How and Why Medicaid Matters for People with Serious Mental Illness Released from Jail” 
  This fact sheet from the Council of State Governments' Reentry Policy Council describes the importance of continuity of access to medical care for people living with mental illness who are released from jail.

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