Below is a list of publications developed by the Consensus Project, coordinated by the Council of State Governments Justice Center.

Core documents

• Project Overview (pdf)
• Consensus Project Report
• Consensus Project Report Overview (pdf)
• Consensus Project e-newsletter

Project Descriptions

• Advocacy Handbook: Brochure (pdf)
• Criminal Justice / Mental Health Information Network: Overview (pdf)
• Judges' Criminal Justice / Mental Health Leadership Initiative: Overview (pdf)
• Law Enforcement / Mental Health Partnership Program: Overview (pdf)
• Mental Health Courts: A National Snapshot (pdf)
• Mental Health Court Learning Sites (pdf)
• Mental Health Court Learning Sites: Program Snapshots and Detailed Descriptions
• National Institute of Corrections Learning Sites: Overview (pdf)
• Violence Against Women with Mental Illness: Overview (pdf)
• Victims of Crimes Committed by People with Mental Illness: Overview (pdf)

Products

• Advocacy Handbook: A Guide to Implementing the Recommendations of the Consensus Project Report
• Consensus Project e-newsletter
• Consensus Project / National Institute of Corrections Increasing Collaboration between Corrections and Mental Health Organizations: Kansas Case Study
• Consensus Project / National Institute of Corrections Increasing Collaboration between Corrections and Mental Health Organizations: Orange County Case Study
• Consensus Project Report
• Consensus Project Report Overview (pdf)
• Council of State Governments / National Institute of Corrections Collaboration Assessment Tool
• Essential Elements of a Mental Health Court (pdf)
• Guide to Mental Health Court Implementation (pdf)
• Guide to Collecting Mental Health Court Outcome Data (pdf)
• Improving Responses to People with Mental Illnesses: The Essential Elements of a Specialized Law Enforcement-Based Program (pdf)
• Judges' Primer on Mental Illness, Addictive Disorders, Co-Occurring Disoders, and Integrated Treatment
• Navigating the Mental Health Maze (pdf)
• Violence Against Women with Mental Illness Issue Brief (pdf)

Coming Soon

• Mental Health Court Handbook on Victim Involvement. Offers recommendations for planning, implementing, and sustaining a protocol for involving victims in the mental health court setting.
• What Is a Mental Health Court? Defines the key aspects of mental health courts- as well as common misperceptions- and discusses emerging trends in mental health court design across the country.
• Strategies for Effective Law Enforcement Training. Provides recommendations for designing a training curriculum that improves officers' responses to people with mental illnesses using a collaborative approach. The guide reviews how to select appropriate trainers who can teach effective intervention techniques and how to best prepare these trainers.
• Victims of Crimes Committed by People with Mental Illnesses. Issue Brief. Describes ways to improve services and policies that protect the rights of crime victims whose perpetrators are individuals with mental illnesses. It details some of the key challenges that may complicate, or in some cases preclude, the enforcement of these victims' rights.
• Violence Against Women with Mental Illnesses: Policy Recommendations. Offers recommendations for planning, implementing, and sustaining community collaborations to improve services for women with mental illnesses who have been the victims of violence.