Corrections

Publications

• Involving Families in Systems Change: Improving Services for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Systems
  http://gainscenter.samhsa.gov/pdfs/family/Involving_Families_Prov.pdf
• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and the Criminal Justice System
  http://www.fasdcenter.samhsa.gov/documents/WYNK_Criminal_Justice5.pdf
• Screening and Assessment of Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System
  http://gainscenter.samhsa.gov/pdfs/disorders/Screening_Assessment_Mono.pdf
• Actions for State Level Change
  http://gainscenter.samhsa.gov/pdfs/integrating/GAINS_Sequential_Intercept.pdf
• Leaving Jail: Service Linkage & Community Re-entry for Mothers with Co-Occurring Disorders
  http://gainscenter.samhsa.gov/pdfs/Women/series/LeavingJail.pdf

Web-Sites

SAMHSA Web site – Criminal and Juvenile Justice Services
http://www.samhsa.gov/Matrix/matrix_criminal.aspx

The Center for Mental Health Services National GAINS Center
http://gainscenter.samhsa.gov/html/about/default.asp

The GAINS Center's primary focus is on expanding access to community based services for adult's diagnosed with co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders at all points of contact with the justice system. The Center emphasizes the provision of consultation and technical assistance to help communities achieve integrated systems of mental health and substance abuse services for individuals in contact with the justice system

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
http://www.ncjrs.gov/whatsncjrs.html

NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.

National Institute of Corrections
http://www.nicic.org/

The Justice Center – Council of State Governments
http://justicecenter.csg.org/

Mental Health America (See Criminal Justice priority area)
http://www1.nmha.org/federal/