Data-Driven Justice Events

A comprehensive and tailored approach to addressing your community’s needs is critical to success. Identifying effective strategies and innovative practices in the treatment and support of high utilizers can reduce incarceration and promote vibrant and healthy communities. DDJ communities have implemented many successful strategies and practices, and come together on regular calls and webinars to discuss their work and learn from experts. Notes, presentations and recordings of these discussions are available here to enhance your efforts to implement data-driven justice in your community.

Justice & Public Safety

Webinar

Data-Driven Justice Monthly Call: State Policies Supporting Pre-Arrest Diversion

Feb. 20, 2019 , 3:00 pm

On this Data-Driven Justice webinar, partners from the Police, Treatment and Community Collaborative (PTACC) discuss the critical importance of pre-arrest diversion policies, including trends in recent state legislation that supports giving law enforcement alternatives to arrest and community-based options for connecting people who are in a beha
Justice & Public Safety

Webinar

Data-Driven Justice Monthly Call: Placing a Mental Health Clinician in the Jail

Dec. 19, 2018 , 3:00 pm

On this Data-Driven Justice webinar, the City of Long Beach, Calif. discusses the momentum around DDJ in the city and a pilot program it started earlier this year to place a mental health clinician in the jail.
Justice & Public Safety

Webinar

Data-Driven Justice Monthly Call: Using the 911 System to Navigate Mental Health Crises Away from Emergency Rooms

Nov. 28, 2018 , 3:00 pm

On this Data-Driven Justice call, learn about the Law Enforcement Navigation of Emergency Detention Patients program in Bexar County, Texas. Using real-time information on bed availability, the program routes people who are in a psychiatric emergency to the appropriate psychiatric facility, diverting
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Webinar

Data-Driven Justice Monthly Call: Getting to Yes: Drafting Data Sharing Agreements

Oct. 24, 2018 , 3:00 pm

On this Data-Driven Justice call, learn strategies from the Network for Public Health Law for working with attorneys to analyze data-sharing issues involving health information and receive recommendations and guidance on key elements to include in data sharing agreements.
Justice & Public Safety

Webinar

Data-Driven Justice Monthly Call: Law Enforcement's Role in Connecting People to Treatment

Aug. 22, 2018 , 3:00 pm

On this Data-Driven Justice call, learn how police in Lake County, Ill. are connecting people to treatment through the county's A Way Out program. Local police work with the county’s health department and a provider network to fast track people into treatment who want it.
Justice & Public Safety

Conference Agenda

Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health Part III: Tracking Connections to Services and Outcomes for Individuals with the Highest Needs in Your Justice System

Jul. 15, 2018 , 2:15 pm – 3:30 pm

Establishing effective connections to important services for justice-involved populations, including linkages to housing, behavioral health treatment, health care and employment assistance, are part of efforts to more effectively use county resources, improve public safety and increase health and well-being.
Justice & Public Safety

Conference Agenda

Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health Part II: Identifying and Treating the People with the Highest Needs in Your Justice System

Jul. 15, 2018 , 10:30 am – 11:45 am

Individuals who regularly cycle in and out of jails, emergency departments and other crisis services – who are sometimes called high utilizers or frequent utilizers – often use many county resources but still experience poor outcomes.
Justice & Public Safety

Conference Agenda

Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health Part I: Using Screening and Assessment to Accurately Identify People in Your Jail with Behavioral Health Treatment Needs

Jul. 15, 2018 , 9:00 am – 10:15 am

Counties need to have an effective screening and assessment process to accurately identify justice-involved individuals with mental illnesses and substance use disorders.

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Data-Driven Justice Events

Data-Driven Justice Monthly Call: State Policies Supporting Pre-Arrest Diversion

Data-Driven Justice Monthly Call: Placing a Mental Health Clinician in the Jail

Data-Driven Justice Monthly Call: Using the 911 System to Navigate Mental Health Crises Away from Emergency Rooms

Data-Driven Justice Monthly Call: Getting to Yes: Drafting Data Sharing Agreements

Data-Driven Justice Monthly Call: Law Enforcement's Role in Connecting People to Treatment

Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health Part III: Tracking Connections to Services and Outcomes for Individuals with the Highest Needs in Your Justice System

Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health Part II: Identifying and Treating the People with the Highest Needs in Your Justice System

Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health Part I: Using Screening and Assessment to Accurately Identify People in Your Jail with Behavioral Health Treatment Needs

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