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2007 Targeted Capacity Expansion Grants for Jail Diversion Programs

DeKalb County, GA

DeKalb County Treatment Diversion Court

The DeKalb County Treatment Diversion Court (DDTC) proposes to expand local mental health services available to non-violent offenders with serious mental illness to divert more individuals from the jail to a court supervised community-based treatment program. DDTC will continue to build on existing relations between the criminal justice system, mental health providers, and a wide array of community service organizations. The DDTC TEAM employs a comprehensive and culturally competent system of care that includes Assertive Community Treatment, intensive case management, integrated mental health and substance abuse treatment, medication management and access, psychiatric rehabilitation, and gender-based trauma services. DDTC has documented success with high retention (71%) and low recidivism (8%) in 2006. One of the key expansion objectives of DDTC is to enhance outreach to refugees and immigrants and assertively reach out to individuals from ethnically diverse backgrounds.

Monroe County, NY

Monroe County Department of Human Services

The goal of this project is to expand Monroe County, NY community resources to divert women with mental illness and substance abuse disorders from jail to appropriate, evidence-based treatment in the community. The target population for this project is women held in jail after arraignment. The program will focus on providing services including Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, medication management, psychiatric rehabilitation, supported employment, and trauma-specific groups. Intensive case management will link clients to comprehensive social services supports such as housing, income, health care, child care, parenting skills, educational and vocational services.

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