Denver Jail TBI Study: Implementation Of Novel Screening And Intervention Programming To Address The Intersection Of Traumatic Brain Injury, Substance Abuse, Mental Illness And Criminality In An Offender Population: A Collaboration Between State, County, And University Partners

The findings were presented April 27, 2015, by Kim Gorgens Ph.D., ABPP, of the University of Denver; Brad McMillan, Ph.D., psychologists with the Denver Sheriff Department; and Judy Dettmer, director of the Colorado Brain Injury Program of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in the Colorado Department of Human Services. The partners are collaborating on a project to provide neuropsychological screening to jail inmates. The presentation reports the incidence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) among various jail populations . . .