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  • Partners in Crisis to co-host 2009 Criminal Justice Reinvestment Grant Symposium (read more)
  • Drug court, other key bills signed by Governor (read more)
  • Fiscal concerns lead to defeat of innovative criminal justice diversion bill (read more)

Partners Meetings

  • Board of Directors Meeting Sept 30, 2009 (read more)

Upcoming Events

  • State Mental Health Planning Council Jul 16 - 17, 2009 (read more)
  • CJMHSA Reinvestment Grant Conference Jul 23 - 24, 2009 (read more)
  • FADAA Annual Conference Aug 12, 2009 (read more)
  • FL Council for Community Mental Health Annual Conference Sept 2, 2009 (read more)
  • South Florida Rally for Recovery Sept 12, 2009 (read more)
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Studies/Publication

1 in 31 U.S. Adults are Behind Bars, on Parole or Probation, Pew Center on the States, March 2009

2002 Asylums of the New Millenium

A Brief Overview of Promising Jail Diversion Programs in Florida, January, 2009

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

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 Pilot Program Review, September 2007

Florida Medicaid Reform Pilot Programs: Challenges with Mental Health Services, May 2008

Florida Senate Baker Act Interim Report, 2008

Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey 2007

Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey 2008 Overview

Florida’s Experience with Medicaid Reform: What has been learned in the first two years?, October 2008

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 Primer: Kaiser Family Foundation, March 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

Reinvestment Act Grants 2008 Annual Report

SAMHSA Building Bridges Re CJ System

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

Substance Abuse & Mental Health Corporation 2008 Annual Report

Substance Abuse Services Best Practices 2005

TAPA Center: What Can We Say

The Criminal Justice – Mental Health Consensus Project Overview

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

Uncertain Access to Needed Drugs: Florida’s Medicaid reform creates challenges for patients, July 2008