CSG and the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) conducted individual virtual office hours sessions with 6 of the 9 Criminal Court Behavioral Health Case Processing Learning Collaborative participant teams to review their team workplans and discuss next steps for the teams to take in terms of improving case processing for defendants with behavioral health needs.
This Zoom call was with the court team from Pima County, AZ. Richard Schwermer from NCSC and Hallie Fader-Towe from CSG organized and led the call. The team discussed their main priorities in terms of their workplan and next steps. They discussed wanting to focus on decreasing jail average length of stays for defendants with behavioral health needs and increasing connections to care for defendants with behavioral health needs. The team identified next steps to achieve these goals including identifying trauma information training to be provided to CJ stakeholders such as law enforcement, corrections staff, PTS, attorneys and judicial officers, and develop and executing MOUs and data sharing agreements among CJ stakeholders to allow the legal sharing of information for individuals in jail to include individuals who are/were on suicide watch, in a BH pod, and/or identified with an SMI and/or SUD.
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