A Study Of Face-To-Face Emergency Evaluations Conducted By Community Services Boards In April 2013

In December 2013, the University of Virginia published a study funded by the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS), and in collaboration with the Virginia Association of Community Services Boards (CSBs) replicating and extending a similar study conducted by the Virginia Commission on Mental Health Law Reform in June, 2007. The 2013 survey had three major policy-relevant objectives: 1) To identify rates of involuntary action and the relationship between involuntary action and access to intensive services as alternatives to hospitalization; 2) To document the time spent looking for beds, the frequency and length of law enforcement . . .