Diversion

COMIO encourages you to visit and share the resources and publications included below.

Selected Projects in California

• Investment in Mental Health
  Wellness Act Grants – CA Health Facilities Financing Authority
• Mentally Ill Offender Crime
  Reduction Grants – Board of State & Community Corrections
• California Community
  Paramedicine Pilot Project
• Words to Deeds – Forensic Mental
  Health Association of California

Selected Publications

• Connecticut:
  Evaluation of the Supervised Diversionary Program  (2013) Central
  Connecticut State University
• Testing
  the Cost Savings of Judicial Diversion  (2013) Center for Court Innovation
• Developing a Comprehensive Plan for
  Mental Health & Criminal Justice Collaboration: The Sequential Intercept
  Model SAMHSA GAINS Center
• Improving
  Responses to People with Mental Illnesses: The Essential Elements of a Mental
  Health Court (2009) Council on State Governments – Justice Center
• Substance
  Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) PowerPoint – Peer
  Support Roles in Criminal Justice Settings
• SAMHSA
  – A Webinar-Supporting Document: Peer Support Roles in Criminal Justice
  Settings

National Resources

• Council of State Governments Justice
  Center
• SAMHSA’s GAINS Center for Behavioral
  Health and Justice Transformation
• The Stepping Up Initiative
• Criminal
  Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project
• Vera Institute of Justice

Courts and Judicial Approaches

• California Judicial Council – Mental
  Health Courts
• California Judicial Council – Mental
  Health Implementation Issues Task Force
• Center for Court Innovation
• Pretrial Justice Institute
• National Association of Counties
• National Association of Drug Court Professionals
• National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies