The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center is pleased to announce its third webinar in the 2010 Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program Webinar Series, sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Assistance

This webinar will provide practitioners with an orientation to data collection in mental health courts, offer concrete skills for working with data in Microsoft Excel, and present considerations for generating data-based communications for internal and external audiences. The webinar will feature perspectives on collecting and presenting data from Cynthea Kimmelman, director of administrative services at the Bronx Mental Health Court (NY), one of the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Mental Health Court Learning Sites. Andrew Barbee, senior research associate at the CSG Justice Center, will demonstrate basic Excel features that facilitate data collection and analysis. This portion of the presentation will include step-by-step instructions on how to best use selected features in Microsoft Excel 2003 (Excel 2007 analogs will be mentioned).The webinar concludes with a question-and-answer session with Ms. Kimmelman and Mr. Barbee, as well as Hallie Fader-Towe, policy analyst, CSG Justice Center, who will provide perspectives on the issue of data collection among mental health courts nationwide.