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Jail diversion: the Miami model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2020

Steve Leifman  and
Tim Coffey Open the ORCID record for Tim Coffey [Opens in a new window]
Steve Leifman
Affiliation:
Miami-Dade County Court, Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, Miami-Dade County, Miami, Florida, USA
Tim Coffey*
Affiliation:
Eleventh Judicial Circuit Criminal Mental Health Project, Miami-Dade County, Miami, Florida, USA
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*Address correspondence to: Tim Coffey, Eleventh Judicial Circuit Criminal Mental Health Project, Miami-Dade County, Miami-Dade County, Miami, FL, USA. (Email: tcoffey@jud11.flcourts.org)
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Abstract

The Eleventh Judicial Circuit Criminal Mental Health Project (CMHP), located in Miami-Dade County, FL, was established in 2000 to divert individuals with serious mental illnesses (SMI; eg, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression) or co-occurring SMI and substance use disorders away from the criminal justice system and into comprehensive community-based treatment and support services. The program operates two primary components: prebooking jail diversion consisting of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training for law enforcement officers and postbooking jail diversion serving individuals booked into the county jail and awaiting adjudication. In addition, the CMHP offers a variety of overlay services intended to: streamline screening and identification of program participants; develop evidence-based community reentry plans to ensure appropriate linkages to community-based treatment and support services; improve outcomes among individuals with histories of noncompliance with treatment; and expedite access to federal and state entitlement benefits. The CMHP provides an effective, cost-efficient solution to a community problem and works by eliminating gaps in services, and by forging productive and innovative relationships among all stakeholders who have an interest in the welfare and safety of one of our community’s most vulnerable populations.

Keywords

criminal justicemental healthjail diversioncrisis intervention teamcourts.
Type
Review
Information
CNS Spectrums , Volume 25 , Issue 5 , October 2020 , pp. 659 - 666
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© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press.

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