News and Announcements
- CBHJ project coordinator Tamarie Willis speaks on NASW-MI panel about social work advocacy in the criminal/legal system
- Mitigating COVID-19 in Jails Toolkit featured in Grand Challenges for Social Work
- CBHJ Newsletter October 2020 - COVID-19 Mitigation in County Jails, Post-Overdose Referrals, SSW Faculty Search, and more
- CBHJ in the News (The Appeal) Coronavirus in Jails and Prisons
- CBHJ and National Center for State Courts data visualization tool shows opioid overdose, sociodemographic and treatment metrics by county in the New England region
- Post-overdose referrals to treatment to increase after EMS legal representation examines lawful cross-agency data sharing
- Mental Health Identification Practices of Jails: The Unmet Needs of the "Silent" Population
- With dissemination support from the CDC foundation, CBHJ distributes toolkit of COVID-19 mitigation strategies to jails nationwide
- Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Drug Overdoses in Indianapolis
- CBHJ evaluation reports on Michigan Re-entry Project (MIREP) show positive outcomes among high-risk population
- CBHJ in the News (Police 1) Lessons learned from implementing a co-response police-mental health team
- Royal Oak chief judge Derek Meinecke discusses Operation Drive, barriers to obtaining a license with CBHJ staff during Lunch & Learn
- CBHJ in the News (BWW News) Indianapolis Recorder to Host Virtual Roundtable "The Voices of Recovery: Celebrating Connections"
- CBHJ and Michigan Mental Health Diversion Council host sixth annual Jail Diversion Summit for over 150 of Michigan's criminal/legal and behavioral health leaders
- Comparing For-Profit and Nonprofit Mental Health Services in County Jails
- Social Work Grand Challenges features CBHJ's work promoting smart decarceration.
- The Use of the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Model for Corrections Officers: Reducing Incidents within a County Jail
- SAMHSA reduces barriers to new methadone patients in jail through crisis exceptions during the COVID-19 pandemic
- CBHJ In the News (Second Wave Michigan) - Leading the nation, Michigan's Opioid Treatment Ecosystems save lives through holistic model
- The Criminal/Legal Experiences of Individuals With Mental Illness Along the Sequential Intercept Model
- CBHJ In the News (ProPublica Illinois) - A Teenager Didn't Do Her Online Schoolwork. So a Judge Sent Her to Juvenile Detention.
- Center for Behavioral Health and Justice Newsletter: July 2020
- CBHJ In the News (LegalNews.com) - In youth justice, anti-COVID-19 methods could also work in the future
- Opioid Treatment Ecosystem (OTE) July 2020 Newsletter
- Rising rates of opioid use disorder in Michigan county jail during COVID-19 pandemic demonstrate need to screen at booking