The Numbers
more likely to have a history of mental illness
What are women?
America's Law Enforcement and Mental Health Project of 2000 created
What are Mental Health Courts?
team made of
what is multi-disciplinary group of professionals?
connects to housing, employment, treatment, transportation, and health insurance
What is resource linkage?
10 times as many people with serious mental illness than in state mental health hospitals
What are state jails and hospitals?
Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act of 2004 provided
What are federal funds?
Georgia’s largest warehouse for persons living with a mental illness
What is Fulton County Jail?
ACT stands for
Assertive Community Treatment
provided on micro and macro level
What is advocacy?
Twice as likely to be rearrested within a year of release.
What are people with serious mental illness?
Federal funds provided to state and local governments to increase access to
What are mental health services?
Georgia's national ranking for access to mental health services
What is last? OR What is 50th?
ACT for people already involved with criminal justice system
What is FACT - forensic assertive community treatment?
Stops crimes before they happen
What is prevention?
Less than half are quipped to offer mental health treatment
What are jails?
2015 Legislation
What is the Comprehensive Justice and Mental Health Act?
Georgia's incarceration rates
What is high?
people receiving this service spend 83% less time in jail
just laws, legislation, service expansion
What are policy changes?
37% of people in these systems have a diagnosed mental illness
What are US federal and state prisons?
Includes mental health treatment in prisons
What is the Comprehensive Justice and Mental Health Act of 2015?
Programs in Georgia that prevent use of jails and prisons
What are Mental Health Court and ACT?
a hospital without
What are walls?
letting the public know about the mental health crisis in jails and prisons
What is educating?