What resources are available to help our community plan a mental health court or improve/expand upon an existing mental health court?
The Guide to Mental Health Court Design and Implementation describes different steps planners will encounter when launching a mental health court and addresses issues such as determining whether a mental health court is the most appropriate court-based program for a jurisdiction, selecting a screening mechanism for potential court participants, and sustaining a court’s operation. The Essential Elements of a Mental Health Court builds upon the Guide by describing ten features-identified by leading experts and informed by hundreds of practitioners-as critical to establishing and sustaining a mental health court. The Consensus Project is constantly working to develop resources that are responsive to needs expressed by practitioners; resources are continually being added to our website at: http://www.consensusproject.org/resources. To learn more or suggest an area of potential need, contact Hallie Fader at hfader@csg.org.
