The Challenges To Voluntary ‘Collaboration’ Between County Corrections & Mental Health Programs

A couple weeks ago, news in Pennsylvania caught my eye – Pennsylvania is joining the Stepping Up Initiative (SUI) to reduce the number of people with mental illnesses in county jails. My colleague Monica E. Oss covered that development in, ‘Stepping Up’ To The Problem Of Mental Illness In Corrections Facilities.

If you are unfamiliar with it, the Stepping Up Initiative is a national effort to divert consumers with behavioral health issues (including those with co-occurring substance use disorders, as well as serious mental illness or serious and persistent mental illness) from jails and into treatment (see Pennsylvania Jails To . . .