The 2010 CMHS National GAINS Conference will be held from March 10-12, 2010 at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, FL. For more information visit the National GAINS Center.

Statewide Consumer Network Grant Application Released

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services is accepting applications for fiscal year 2009 for Statewide Consumer Network grants. The program seeks to address the needs of underserved and under-represented consumers including consumers with histories of trauma, veterans, or those who have been involved in the criminal justice system. Applications are due by May 21, 2009. For more information and to obtain the RFA, click here.

New Funding for Behavioral Healthcare Integration

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services is now taking applications for fiscal year 2009 for Grants for Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration.  To improve the physical health status of people with serious mental illnesses, these programs will be supporting communities to coordinate and integrate primary care services into publicly funded community mental health and other community-based behavioral health settings. Applications are due by May 27, 2009. For more information and to obtain the RFA, click here.

Resources

Pew Center-1 in 31

Explosive growth in the number of people on probation or parole has propelled the population of the American corrections system to more than 7.3 million, or 1 in every 31 U.S. adults, according to a report released by the Pew Center on the States.  The vast majority of these offenders live in the community, yet new data in the report finds that nearly 90 percent of state corrections dollars are spent on prisons. The report examines the scale and cost of prison, jail, probation and parole in each of the 50 states, and provides a blueprint for states to cut both crime and spending by reallocating prison expenses to fund stronger supervision of offenders in the community. Click here.

WHAT'S UPCOMING

4/26-30 – American Jail Association – Annual Training Conference and Jail Expo, Louisville, KY more...

5/4-5 – The Northern Kentucky Criminal Justice/Behavioral Health Advisory Committee, Recovery ~ Responsibility ~ Resiliency for Justice involved Persons with Behavioral Health Disorders, Covington, KY more...

5/16-21 – American Psychiatric Association - 162nd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA more...

5/20-22 – National Coalition for Homeless Veterans - 2009 Annual Conference, Arlington, VA more...

5/26-28 – Judicial Council of Georgia Drug, DUI and Mental Health Court Conference more...