Stepping Up
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Reports & Toolkits
Stepping Up: County Officials Guide to the Six Questions
In January 2017, Stepping Up released Reducing the Number of People with Mental Illnesses in Jail: Six Questions County Leaders Need to Ask (Six Questions), a report intended t -
Reports & Toolkits
Stepping Up Six Questions Case Studies
An estimated two million annual jail admissions involve people with serious mental illnesses. Over the past decade, county commissioners and supervisors, police, judges, corrections administrators, public defenders, prosecutors, community-based service providers and advocates have mobilized to better respond to people with mental illnesses. -
Reports & Toolkits
Reducing Mental Illness in Rural Jails
As part of the Stepping Up initiative, NACo has published a new report that outlines some of the challenges rural counties face when trying to reduce incarceration of people with mental illnesses. Jails across the nation serve an estimated 2 million people with serious mental illnesses each year.
