Using Coalitions to Foster Jail Diversion

Presented by NAMI Maine

Carol Carothers and Karen Lenzen

Outline

How did NAMI Maine develop successful diversion coalitions

How did we blend CIT into those efforts Raising money The Sequential Intercept Model

Precipitating events

2/2000 – James Thomas, “A teens last trip to prison”

Ken Moore – Maine Times article

Step One:Research

National Up the River, Travels in a Prison Nation New Jack Crazy online

State – press clippings Meet with Sheriffs Association Local – jail survey

Step Two: Awareness

Generate press Op Eds Press calls – pitch stories Release report

Collect names of callers

Step Three: Planning

What is needed? Who can help decide

what is needed: list of partners that will be needed

Issue invitation to join coalition.

First meeting

GOAL WHAT TIMEAttendees know why each person has come

Introductions10 mins.

Mission outlined Draft mission disseminated and reviewed

20 mins

Brainstorm needed changes Participants list things that need to change if people with mental illness are to not go to jail and to get out faster when they do

30 mins

Set next meeting time and agenda

Participants book next meeting

5 mins.

NAMI MAINE’S COALITIONS

2000 to 2003 – The Coalition on Mental Illness, Substance Abuse and Criminal Justice.

Mission and members Statewide

Drafted omnibus legislation

Members review Hired lobbyist Followed first legislation

and subsequent study Mission accomplished -

disbanded

Cumberland County Coalition

2001- Present Existing Coalition CIT grant DOT grant

Penobscot County Coalition

2003 - Present Sheriff call for help NIMH grant Penquis CAP grant

Sequential Intercept Model

Model for organizing discussion of diversion and linkage alternatives and for systematically addressing criminalization

Based on public health principles Developed in Ohio and adopted by GAINS

Center Where to intervene; at what “intercept”.

Intercepts

One: Law enforcement and emergency services

Two: Initial Hearings and Detention Three: Jails and Courts Four: Reentry from jails, prisons, hospitals Five: Community corrections and Community

support

PENOBSCOT SEQUENTIAL INTERCEPT MAP: REVISED MARCH 2007

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CIT Response

ER or Crisis Bed

Relink to MH Services, family., friend

Cite- Release

Bail conditions-V0A

Intercept 1 – Law Enforcement/Crisis

Intercept 2 – Booking; InitialAppearance

Intercept 3 – Jails, Courts

Intercept 4 – Re-entry

Intercept 5 - Community

Crisis Assessment

Jail Screening;

ER; Hospitalization; 72 Hr. Bed.; Detox; Rapid Response

DHHS ICM linkage

VOA – bail contract

PR Bail, Release, Court ordered eval., Family

Crisis Assessment

In-jail treatment – Peer supports

Hospital

Enhanced Drug Court

VOA bail contract

Community Corrections

Discharge Planning; Pre-release services

CommunityACTICICSWICMTherapy.ResidentialS.A. OPS.A. IOP½ way houseProbationPeer SupportBed gatekeeper - DHHS

Boundary spanner

Substance abuse treatment mandate

DOC re-entry worker

Action Plan

What Why How Who When

Need for boundary spanners

Disconnect between court, providers, jail

Document need;

Mobilize pilot project using existing resources

MarkDeb

Carol

First meeting – March 3

Pilot in place by 9-07

Penobscot Accomplishments

Creation of first boundary spanner positions – with no new funding

Pilot project developed – data tracked Peer support grant obtained CIT – jail and police force

Kennebec Coalition

Call to Chief Justice Conversion Foundation grant Road blocks Coalition building Co-occurring Court US DOJ grant Steering Committee Summitt

Joint Action Plan

Legislative requirement Penobscot is the model Statewide steering

committee

Androscoggin Coalition

2006-Present SIM as guide Penobscot as model

CIT IN MAINE

CIT COALITIONS

History

2000 first grants 2001 Portland – 8 officers 2002-2004 – Add sites; grant writing 2004 – 2 Jail based CIT grants 2005-2007 – Expansion grant with research 2007 – obtained state funding

CIT process

Organize local collaboration

“Sell” CIT CIT as first collaboration

or part of existing collaboration

CIT expansion CIT marketing

Expansion Grant

Ten funders LIFP experience Add 8 jails, 6 communities over two years Research replicability Data collection difficulties Steering Committee for sustainability Newsletter Database of all CIT officers

CIT Lessons learned

Leadership is everything

Maintenance needed Officer Fatigue

Looking Ahead

Portland’s sustainability plan? To Stipend or Not to Stipend Awards and other recognition CIT is THE backbone

Funding

Local funders Conversion foundations Byrne Grants Federal grants (Samhsa, USDOJ) State government buy in Legislation

LESSONS LEARNED

Coalitions can change the world if the right people are at the table

Planning keeps coalitions alive Without strong leadership coalitions don’t

continue Visible accomplishments keep things going. Thank god for SIM

Lessons learned

You can do a lot without new money. Coalitions may have a natural life and then

end when their work is done. Coalitions require strong leadership and

maintenance Planning and vision are important When stuck, SIM

When you need funding

Government list serve for grant announcements.

Gains Center Local funders (Maine Philanthropy Center

and grant makers directory) Foundation Center Directory NAMI opportunity grants Pharma

Maine funding

DOT – Samhsa Co-occurring Court – U.S. DOJ Penobscot County – NIMH CIT: 6 local foundations, Eli Lilly, Bristol

Meyers Squibb. State government

TWO YEAR AGENDA

Sustainability (legislation) Maintenance Individual officer recognition Individual program recognition Data collection Release of research re: CIT in jail Certification

Things we did without funding

Established coalitions SIM for counties OP Eds, Jail surveys, reports in 2000, 2002,

2007 Started a co-occurring court Mucho press – considerable awareness Changed the agenda for the state