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• Can You Use a Free Screening Tool for Mental Illness?

  Back in May, 2007, I wrote a blog: How Do You Identify the Mentally Ill in Your Jail? , that included information on the Brief Jail Mental Health Screen (BJMHS) and the gender specific Correctional Mental Health Screen (CMHS). A new NIJ-funded report... Posted Oct 11 2007, 10:02 AM by Sandy Schilling with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: mental health, Screening Instruments

• How Do You Identify the Mentally Ill in Your Jail?

  The National Institute of Justice has released a new publication, " Mental Health Screens for Corrections ", which includes the Brief Jail Mental Health Screen (BJMHS) and the gender specific Correctional Mental Health Screen (CMHS). These screens... Posted May 31 2007, 12:09 PM by Sandy Schilling with | with no comments Filed under: mental health, Screening Instruments

• SAMHSA Announces 2007 Funding for Diversion of Mentally Ill from Jail

  The Center for Mental Health Services of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is soliciting applications for its FY 2007 Targeted Capacity Expansion Grants for Jail Diversion... Posted Jan 29 2007, 12:59 PM by Sandy Schilling with | with no comments Filed under: mental health, Grants, Jail diversion

• Nominate Your Jail Transition Program

  The National Association of Counties (NACo) is seeking model jail transition programs for inmates being released with co-occurring disorders. "Selected models will then be featured in a promising practices publication, which will serve as a resource... Posted Nov 14 2006, 11:26 AM by Sandy Schilling with | with no comments Filed under: mental health, co-occurring disorders, transition

• Is the number of mentally ill growing in your prison or jail?

  On today's broadcast of National Public Radio's Morning Edition (September 19, 2006), " Mental Health Problems Common in Prisons ," Arthur Wallenstein, Director, Montgomery County Department of Correction & Rehabilitation and NIC... Posted Sep 19 2006, 09:32 AM by Sandy Schilling with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Statistics, mentally ill, mental health