News and Announcements
- Lansing police hired a social worker in 2019. She's changed they way they handle mental health calls (Fox 47 Lansing)
- Inside the effort to build trust in COVID vaccines (Boston Globe)
- CBHJ seeks to promote racial equity by examining the impact of legal fines and fees on people of color.
- City of Detroit program aims to employ returning citizens coming out of jail (WXYZ Detroit)
- CBHJ partners with jails to enable or enhance telehealth services to those with behavioral health disorders
- Grant Victor, CBHJ Postdoctoral fellow invited to participate in JCOIN LEAP investigator program
- Wayne State PhD student receives award for highlighting the correlation between serious mental illness and wrongful capital punishment convictions
- 'Many jails still do not do any testing.' Advocates push for more focus on Michigan jails & COVID (WXYZ-TV Detroit)
- Adoption of Virtual Services in Judicially Led Diversion Programs Preliminary Survey Findings
- CBHJ's Tamarie Willis begins new role as Re-entry Projects Manager
- CBHJ among seven recipients of grants announced by the Michigan Opioid Partnership for statewide post-overdose rapid response efforts, partnering with Calhoun County to expand PROACT program.
- CBHJ in the News (Oakland County Legal News): Review of juvenile justice system offered February 18
- Individuals with mental illness who have multiple encounters with law enforcement
- December 2020 Newsletter - COVID-19 webinar series, Medicaid continuity, telehealth, and more...
- Dead Wrong: Capital Punishment, Wrongful Convictions, and Serious Mental Illness
- CBHJ hosts nationwide webinar series on mitigating COVID-19 in jail settings, first of monthly series
- 2020 holiday and end-of-year message from CBHJ director Brady Ray
- CBHJ, TBD Solutions assess Medicaid continuity for individuals incarcerated in county jails
- Detroit police working to de-escalate confrontations with the mentally ill (Bridge Michigan)
- Arresting The Spread: Fighting COVID In Jails
- CBHJ develops telehealth checklist to support jails and prisons in implementing behavioral telehealth services during COVID-19 and beyond
- Using prescribing and toxicology data to determine non-medical prescription drug overdose
- CBHJ welcomes new team members
- Social Work Spotlight: Meet Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Grant Victor
- CBHJ diversion research informs Square One Project report exploring the connections between healthcare reform and justice reform