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about collaboration between BJA and SAMHSA
The Bureau of Justice Assistance is coordinating the Mental Health
Courts initiative with a program of the Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Targeted Capacity
Expansion (TCE) Grants for Jail Diversion Programs, GFA No. SM02-010. The
agencies will collaborate on the implementation and analysis of these
two programs with the goals of improving policies and practices and
ensuring that the Federal Government does not fund overlapping
diversion models.
SAMHSA will fund grants for pre- and post-booking
diversion that does not involve continuous judicial oversight, treatment,
and case disposition. BJA will fund grants for mental health courts and
will limit its funding to models in which continuous judicial oversight and
intensive case management are key design components. The technical assistance provider for the SAMHSA TCE program is the TAPA Center for Jail Diversion. For more information concerning SAMHSA's program, visit the TAPA Center Web site.
Download this 2-page document to read more about the collaborative efforts of TAPA and the Consensus Project to provide technical assistance.
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