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Justice Center Webinars Available Online
The Council of State Governments Justice Center, which coordinates the Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project, makes all of its past webinars available online. You can listen to presentations and download slides for dozens of webinars hosted both by the Consensus Project and the National Reentry Resource Center (also coordinated by the Justice Center), on a range of critical topics faced everyday by practitioners working with justice-involved people with mental illnesses.
Some of the webinars from the last year - all of which are available on the Consensus Project website - are listed below. (To view a complete list of Consensus Project webinars, click here.)
Some of the webinars from the last year - all of which are available on the Consensus Project website - are listed below. (To view a complete list of Consensus Project webinars, click here.)
- Child Trauma and Juvenile Justice: Prevalence, Impact and Treatment reviews the prevalence, impact, and treatment of trauma for youth involved in the juvenile justice system. To view this webinar and download the presentation, click here.
- Law Enforcement and Mental Health, a Community-wide Collaborative Strategy features innovative collaborations between law enforcement and mental health agencies working to improve the response to people with mental illnesses through specialized policing response (SPR) programs. To view this webinar and download the presentation, click here.
- Maximizing the Impact of Juvenile Justice Interventions – The Importance of Risk/Needs Assessment reviews key concepts of risk assessment and its implementation in juvenile justice agencies. To view this webinar and download the presentation, click here.
- Mental Illness and Violence reviews a recently released toolkit to help policymakers better anticipate and respond to high-profile tragic incidents involving people with serious mental illnesses. To view this webinar and download the presentation, click here.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Criminal Justice/Mental Health Programs presents cognitive behavioral interventions from the worlds of criminal justice and mental health that were created to specifically target the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors associated with criminal recidivism. To view this webinar and download the presentation, click here.
- Innovations in Substance Abuse Treatment: Continuing Care and Medicated-Assisted Treatments for the Criminal Justice Population reviews how adopting a “continuing care model” to treat substance use disorders can improve outcomes for individuals who are justice involved. To watch a recording of this webinar, click here. To download a PDF of the PowerPoint slides used in this presentation, click here.
- Recidivism Reduction, Substance Use and Co-Occurring Disorders: What Does the Evidence and Practice Tell Us? discusses best practices in effective treatment for people whose co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders range in severity—first focusing on the importance of screening and assessment and then covering evidence-based treatment practices that help to reduce recidivism for people with co-occurring disorders. To watch a recording of this webinar, click here. To download a PDF of the PowerPoint presentation used in this webinar, click here.
- Screening and Assessment in Reentry: Incorporating Risk, Need, and Responsivity discusses how the three principles of risk reduction, need, and responsivity can be used to improve outcomes for individuals returning from prison and jail. To watch the webinar, click here. To download a PDF of the PowerPoint presentation used in this webinar, click here.
- Effective Case Planning Strategies demonstrates how case plans can be used as a tool to structure interactions between officers and supervisees by providing supervisees with clear, direct, short-term goals that encourage accountability and promote long-term behavioral change. To watch a recording of this webinar, click here. To download a PDF of the PowerPoint slides used in this webinar, click here.