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Mental Health Co-Occuring Disorders Court
Sequential Intercept Model* Mapping Session
What: Sequential Intercept Model* Mapping Session
When: February 10, 2012, 1:00 to 4:00
Where: Portland Water District,
225 Douglass Street,
Portland, Maine
To register: Please contact Project Coordinator, Valerie Landry at 207-590-8760 or via email.
Agenda: Click here to download the Agenda.
Supporting Documents: To download the supporting documents, please go to our Resources/Documents page!*"The Sequential Intercept Model provides a conceptual framework for communities to use when considering the interface between the criminal justice and mental health systems as they address concerns about criminalization of people with mental illness. The model envisions a series of points of interception at which an intervention can be made to prevent individuals from entering or penetrating deeper into the criminal justice system. Ideally, most people will be intercepted at early points, with decreasing numbers at each subsequent point. The interception points are law enforcement and emergency services; initial detention and initial hearings; jail, courts, forensic evaluations, and forensic commitments; reentry from jails, state prisons, and forensic hospitalization; and community corrections and community support. The model provides an organizing tool for a discussion of diversion and linkage alternatives and for systematically addressing criminalization. Using the model, a community can develop targeted strategies that evolve over time to increase diversion of people with mental illness from the criminal justice system and to link them with community treatment." (Munetz and Griffin; Psychiatric Services 57:544–549, 2006)
Working Together: Creating a Mental Health Co-Occurring Disorders Court in Cumberland County Wednesday, January 18, 2012 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
WHERE: University of Southern Maine, Abromson Center, Rooms 109 & 110, Portland, Maine
WHEN: January 18, 2012
TIME: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
HOSTED BY: Hon. Nancy Mills, Justice, Maine Superior Court & Stephanie Anderson, Cumberland County District Attorney
The Maine Judicial Branch, Cumberland County, and Catholic Charities are working together to develop an improved way to deal with people, including veterans, with mental health and substance abuse problems who are involved in the criminal justice system in Cumberland County. A similar program, the Kennebec County Co-Occurring Disorders and Veterans’ Court, has operated successfully for the past six years.
The purpose of this meeting is to provide information about the proposed court and explain the critical role that we hope you will have in this important effort. During the next several months, we will request input and support from members of law enforcement, human services, mental health, substance abuse treatment, housing, health care, education, workforce, advocacy, veterans’ affairs, and others.The meeting on January 18 will provide the foundation for the development of a comprehensive, integrated, and broadly supported court in Cumberland County.
At the meeting, Justice Nancy Mills will describe the operation and results of the Kennebec County Co-Occurring Disorders and Veterans’ Court. District Attorney Anderson will discuss why a similar court is vital to the interests of Cumberland County and its residents.
Please let us know by January 10 whether you or a representative from your organization will be able to join us at this meeting.