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Join the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program for their upcoming “Implementing Telehealth in Jails” webinar on August 13, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. ET. This webinar will address the fundamentals of telehealth and the experience of implementing it in correctional facilities to better manage physical health, mental health, and substance use treatment.
This webinar covers the fundamentals of telehealth and the experience of implementing telehealth in a correctional setting to support and facilitate physical health, mental health, and substance use treatment.
Counties across the country are building collaborative partnerships to reduce the number of people with mental illnesses in their jails. Despite the progress that counties have made, they still face challenges with sharing information across multiple systems, limiting their success in identifying people involved in these systems, coordinating services and supervision, and tracking the impact of their efforts.
NCCJD met with BJS staff regarding BJS reports that track number of people with disabilities in prisons and jails. During the meeting BJS staff requested review of screening instrument/survey regarding disability issues.
NCCJD was invited to submit a proposal after we contacted them when we met their staff at the exhibit at NSA conference. The session focused on people with I/DD in jails and the need for more and better screening tools to identify people with often hidden disabilities cycling in and out of the criminal justice system.
The TA has several purposes: review updated jail data analysis and prepare to discuss findings with the JRI Policy Team; review design of new jail information system and its capacity to generate reports for the Policy Team on population drivers and costs; assist Cindy McCoy and Judge Spitzer with organizing the work of two, new areas of policy exploration (jail length of stay and mental health treatment and service needs for justice involved individuals in the County), including developing ad hoc wok groups.
