Stepping Up Four Key Measures #2: Shortening the Length of Stay in Jail for People with Mental Illnesses
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WebinarPart of the Stepping Up framework encourages counties to focus their efforts on impacting one or more of “Four Key Measures” for people with mental illnesses: jail bookings, jail length of stay, connections to treatment and recidivism.Stepping Up Four Key Measures #2: Shortening the Length of Stay in Jail for People with Mental Illnesses
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Stepping Up Four Key Measures #2: Shortening the Length of Stay in Jail for People with Mental Illnesses
Part of the Stepping Up framework encourages counties to focus their efforts on impacting one or more of “Four Key Measures” for people with mental illnesses: jail bookings, jail length of stay, connections to treatment and recidivism. Join Stepping Up for the second webinar in the Four Key Measures series, which will provide strategies for shortening the length of stay in jail for people with mental illnesses and describe key data points to collect and analyze to track this measure of success. Previous webinars in this series are available on the Stepping Up toolkit.
Part of the Stepping Up framework encourages counties to focus their efforts on impacting one or more of “Four Key Measures” for people with mental illnesses: jail bookings, jail length of stay, connections to treatment and recidivi2018-08-02Webinar2020-08-26
Part of the Stepping Up framework encourages counties to focus their efforts on impacting one or more of “Four Key Measures” for people with mental illnesses: jail bookings, jail length of stay, connections to treatment and recidivism. Join Stepping Up for the second webinar in the Four Key Measures series, which will provide strategies for shortening the length of stay in jail for people with mental illnesses and describe key data points to collect and analyze to track this measure of success. Previous webinars in this series are available on the Stepping Up toolkit.


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