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Studies/Publication

2002 Asylums on the New Millenium

2006 Florida Youth Survey (Drug Use)

Adult Drug Court Toolkit, Florida Supreme Court Task Force on Treatment-Based Drug Courts, April 2007

Asylum News Release

Common Sense: A Strategic Plan to Provide Supportive Housing Throughout Florida, 2007

County Detention Facilities Report of Average Inmate Populations - February 2007

Coverage for All: Inclusion of Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders in State Healthcare Reform Initiatives Executive Summary

Crisis in Corrections: The Mentally Ill in America’s Prisons, February 2005

Dispelling Myths about Information Sharing Between the Mental Health and Criminal Justice Systems, February 2007

Double Jeopardy: Persons with Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System, Center for Mental Health Services, 1995

Effectiveness of Community-Based Treatment in Reducing Admissions to State Forensic Facilities, Florida Senate Committee on Children, Families and Elders Affairs, 2006

Effectiveness of the Broward County Mental Health Court – An Evaluation, November, 2002

Fighting Stigma in Law Enforcement – Overview of Memphis Police Department CIT Program

Florida Medicaid Reform Quarterly Report, May 2007

FMHI Mental Health Court Evaluation

FMHI State and National Perspectives on Parity, 2001

Increasing Collaboration between Corrections and Mental Health Organizations: Orange County Case Study, January 2007

Intervention Strategies for Offenders with Co-Occurring Disorders: What Works? – December, 1997

Justice Dept on Mental Health Courts

Justice Reinvestment Overview, Council of State Governments Justice Center

Medicaid A Primer

Medicaid Reform Pilot Program Review, September 2007

Mental Health Court Evaluations Bibliography

Miami-Dade County Grand Jury Report - Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System: A Recipe for Disaster/A Prescription for Improvements

Miami-Dade County Mayor’s Mental Health Task Force – Final Report

OPPAGA Report on Economic Impact of Homelessness in Florida, January 2005

President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Report - Executive Summary, July 2003

Prevalence of Co-Occurring Disorders in Criminal Justice System, 1997

SAMHSA Building Bridges Re CJ System

Spending Money in all the Wrong Places, NAMI Policy Research Institute, March 2004

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Corporation 2006 Annual Report

Substance Abuse Services Best Practices 2005

TAPA Center: What Can We Say

The Criminal Justice – Mental Health Consensus Project Overview

The Final Report of the Miami -Dade County Grand Jury

Transforming Florida's Mental Health System: Constructing a Comprehensive and Competent Criminal Justice/Mental Health/Substance Abuse Treatment, Florida Supreme Court Report, November, 2007