How Counties Are Responding to Behavioral Health Needs and Improving Public Safety
This overview of Stepping Up highlights the accomplishments of the initiative to date, including county successes, and discusses the focus areas for the future of Stepping Up.
Mark Stovell, Risë Haneberg | November 2022 | The Council of State Governments Justice Center
About the authors
Deputy Program Director, Behavioral Health
Mark
oversees
the
delivery
of
broad-based
technical
assistance
products
and
tools
to
assist
counties
in
their
Stepping
Up
efforts.
Mark
has
also
provided
technical
assistance
to
Second
Chance
Act
and
Justice
and
Mental
Health
Collaboration
Program
grantees
that
serve
people
...
with
co-occurring
substance
use
disorders
and
mental
illness,
and
he
has
coordinated
additional
projects
designed
to
advance
practices
at
the
intersection
of
the
criminal
justice
and
behavioral
health.
Before
joining
the
CSG
Justice
Center,
Mark
worked
for
the
Partnership
to
End
Addiction
in
New
York
City
where
he
developed
educational
tools
for
state
decisionmakers
on
improving
addiction
prevention
and
treatment
through
health
policy.
He
also
worked
for
Families
USA
in
Washington,
DC
and
for
Hunger
Free
Vermont
as
part
of
the
Bill
Emerson
National
Hunger
Fellowship.
Mark
earned
his
BA
in
political
science
and
sociology
from
Ohio
University
and
his
MPA
at
Baruch
College.
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Former Deputy Division Director, Behavioral Health
Risë
Haneberg
served
as
deputy
division
director
within
the
Behavioral
Health
Division
at
The
Council
of
State
Governments
Justice
Center.
In
this
role,
Risë
led
the
Stepping
Up
Initiative,
the
national
effort
to
reduce
the
number
of
people
with
mental
...
illnesses
in
the
justice
system
with
partners
National
Association
of
Counties
and
the
American
Psychiatric
Foundation.
Additionally,
Risë
provided
oversight
to
county
systems
improvement
projects
and
technical
assistance
to
Justice
and
Mental
Health
Collaboration
Program
grantee
sites.
Before
joining
the
CSG
Justice
Center,
Risë
served
as
the
criminal
justice
coordinator
for
Johnson
County,
Kansas,
from
2008
to
2014.
Risë
previously
served
as
the
chief
court
service
officer
in
Johnson
County
and
began
her
career
in
criminal
justice
as
a
juvenile
probation
officer
in
1979.
Risë
holds
a
BS
in
criminal
justice
from
Wichita
State
University
and
an
MA
in
public
administration
from
the
University
of
Kansas.
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