Look What’s New at GAINS!

The CMHS National GAINS Center has made a number of updates to its website. Over the past year GAINS Center staff has been working on several initiatives involving consumers and peer specialists, veterans, judges, and mental health courts. New resources have been added to the site that includes an updated Screening and Assessment tool for co-occurring disorders and a guide for Responding to the Needs of Justice-Involved Combat Veterans. Visit the GAINS website to read more about what GAINS is doing to help improve our Nation’s responses to persons with mental illness and co-occurring disorders.

WHAT'S UPCOMING

3/5-8 - American Psychology-Law Society – 2009 Conference, San Antonio, TX more…

3/9-11 - NACBHDD – Legislative and Policy Conference, Washington, DC more...

3/10-14 - ACJS, 46th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA more...

3/11-14 - National Conference on Juvenile Justice - 36th National Conference on Juvenile Justice, Orlando, FL more...

3/12-14 - American College of Mental Health Administration- Annual Summit, Santa Fe, NM more...

3/12-15 - American Correctional Health Services Association - Professional Development Conference Orlando, FL more...

3/18-20 - Forensic Mental Health Association of California - 34th Annual Conference, Seaside, CA more...

3/23-25 - MIDDA - Motivational Interviewing, Preparing People for Change: Theory and Skill Building Seminar, New York, NY more...

3/31-4/2 - 6th Annual Hawaii Conference on Preventing, Assessing & Treating Childhood, Adolescent & Adult Trauma, Honolulu, HI more...

Resources

Consumer Perspectives Exhibit
The CMHS National GAINS Center Consumer Perspectives Exhibit, In Our Own Words: Our Experience with Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System, was designed to educate people working in the mental health, substance abuse, and criminal justice systems. Contributors to this exhibit include consumers and peer specialists, participants in jail diversion programs and drug courts, and other individuals with justice involvement.  The result of the contributions of these men and women from around the country is a multi-media exhibit of vignettes, photos, pastels, pencil drawings, poetry, collages, audio clips and film clips. To read more about the Consumer Perspectives Exhibit, to find out information on having the Exhibit displayed, or for more information on how to contribute to the Exhibit, click here.

GAINS Center Resources
Below is a listing of the most popular resources on the GAINS Center website:

1. Screening and Assessment of Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System more…
2. Practical Advice on Jail Diversion more…
3. A Guide to Implementing Police-Based Diversion Programs more…
4. A Best Practice Approach to Community Re-Entry from Jails more…
5. Enhancing Success of Police-Based Diversion Programs more…

Correction to January 2009 Newsletter: The January 2009 GAINS Newsletter stated that the publication, Women's Mental Health Issues Across the Criminal Justice System, was published by the Consensus Project. The GAINSCenter would like to note that the authors of the book are Rosemary L. Gido and Lanette Dalley and was published by Pearson. For more information about the book visit the Consensus Project.