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2021 Critical Intervention Planning Meeting Lewisville, TX

2021 Judicial Summit on Mental Health Georgetown, Texas

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2021 Eliminate the Wait Panel @ Summit Georgetown, Texas

Registration Now Open: 2022 Judicial Summit on Mental Health

The Texas Judicial Commission on Mental Health will host its 5th Annual Judicial Summit on Mental Health on November 2 - 4, 2022, at Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine, Texas.

Our Mission

The mission of the Judicial Commission on Mental Health is to engage and empower court systems through collaboration, education, and leadership, thereby improving the lives of individuals with mental health needs, substance use disorders, or intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

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Eliminate the Wait Toolkit

It is time to right size competency restoration services for Texans by taking a holistic approach to this challenge. The Texas Judicial Commission on Mental Health and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission asks judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, sheriffs and jail staff, police, and behavioral health providers to join their collaborative effort to change how Texas serves people at the intersection of mental health and criminal justice. We all have a role to play to ELIMINATE THE WAIT.

This toolkit includes a set of strategies that stakeholders can implement to help ELIMINATE THE WAIT for inpatient competency restoration services in Texas.

Eliminate The Wait Toolkit

Spotlight: Texas Counties' Innovations in Mental Health Treatment

The Office of Court Administration produced a video to highlight four Texas counties' efforts to improve their mental health systems.

JCMH Tools & Resources

Texas Mental Health and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Law Bench Book

Texas Juvenile Mental Health and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Law Bench Book

Texas Mental Health and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Law Selected Statutes and Rules

2019 Annual Report to the Courts

Leading Change: Improving Courts' Response to Mental Health and Intellectual and Developmental Disability Needs

Assessing Mental Health and IDD Landscape by Intercept

Mental Health Resources

Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute

Provides high quality, nonpartisan and objective policy research and development to improve mental health services in Texas.

Hogg Foundation for Mental Health

Works to transform how communities promote mental health in everyday life.

National Alliance on Mental Health

The nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.