Interdisciplinary Curriculum

Developing a Mental Health Court: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum is a free online multimedia curriculum for individuals and teams seeking to start, maintain, or just learn about mental health courts.

Developing a Mental Health Court: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum is a free online multimedia curriculum for individuals and teams seeking to start, maintain, or just learn about mental health courts. Developed by The Council of State Governments Justice Center with the support of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, it is the first single resource with the information teams need to translate current research on mental health courts into program design and operation.

Developing a Mental Health Court is proving useful for many practitioners, including:

Judges
Probation, pretrial, and law enforcement officers
Prosecutors and defense attorneys
Court managers
State judicial educators
Mental health and substance use treatment providers and administrators
Case managers

An Introduction to the Curriculum

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Take a Tour of the Curriculum

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Additional Resources

Curriculum Learning Objectives

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User Guide

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Hallie Fader-Towe

Strategy Director, Justice & Health Initiatives

Hallie Fader-Towe directs strategy for projects focusing on improving safety by better aligning justice and health systems. Since joining the organization in 2009 as a policy analyst, Hallie has worked with leaders in almost every state in the country on

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policy and practice at the intersection of justice, behavioral health, and housing. She has led and overseen projects related to state policy on crisis response, pretrial release, competency to stand trial, familiar faces, diversion, problem-solving courts, and connections to housing upon reentry and has worked with counties of all shapes and sizes on analyzing local data to design and implement new policies and programs. Hallie received a BA from Brown University and a JD from Harvard Law School.