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County Mental Health Law Plan
Civil Commitment
Early Intervention
Specialty Courts
The County Mental Health Law Plan (CMHLP) seeks to offer pilot program counties JCMH technical assistance, tools, and resources including a checklist and template to support their work in creating such a County Mental Health Law Plan over a six-month period. The goals of the pilot are to determine if creating such a plan encourages discussions that add collaboration, efficiency, cost-savings, and accountability to county mental health law systems.
Counties will participate in four topic-based webinars that are also available on the JCMH YouTube channel. After the webinars, the JCMH staff will visit each county for a workshop.
El Paso, Henderson, Burnet, Burleson, Hays, Medina, Duval, and Travis Counties are currently participating.
Summit Archives by Topic
- 2018 – Creating Integrated Adult and Children’s Mental Health Systems
- 2018 – Are the Kids Alright? Preventing Youth Suicide
- 2018 – Becoming Trauma-Informed: Updates from DFPS and TJJD
- 2018 – Engaging Youth Voice in Our Daily Work
- 2018 – Ensuring Racial Equity in Serving Children and Youth
- 2020 – Texas Family Code Chapter 55 subchapter b
- 2020 – New Psychiatric Resources for Texas Children and Youth
- 2020 – Juvenile Mental Health Courts & Diversionary Practices
- 2020 – The Adolescent Brain
- 2021 – Resources for Justice-Involved Youth
- 2022 – Children’s Mental Health in Texas
- 2022 – What Courts Need to Know About the TEA and Accessing Appropriate Services
- 2022 – The Family Intervention Restorative Services of Texas (FIRST) Diversion Program
- 2022 – Supporting Youth with Complex Needs
- 2022 – Ethical Prosecution and Defense of Juvenile Justice Cases
- 2022 – Addressing Childhood Trauma and Grief in Schools: The Handle with Care Program
- 2022 – Incorporating Trauma Informed Care into Juvenile Probation & Courtrooms
- 2022 – Eliminating Barriers to Reentry by Building Resilience
- 2022 – From Soulless to Wholeness
Civil (AOT courts, Advanced Directives, Emergency Detentions)
- 2019 – Best Practices, Urban Counties: The Benefits of Psychiatric Advance Directives and other Planning Tools
- 2019 – Best Practices, Rural Counties: The Benefits of Psychiatric Advance Directives
- 2021 – Emergency Detention Training for Law Enforcement and Local Judiciary: A Collaboration Between the LMHA & PD
- 2021 – Civil 101 & Expanding Intercepts to Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT)
- 2022 – Assisted Outpatient Treatment Courts
- 2022 – Assisted Outpatient Treatment Court Saved My Life
- 2022 – Effectively Utilizing Civil Law & Community Services in Mental Health and IDD Cases
Early Interventions (16.22, 17.032, Risk Assessments, Diversion, Magistration)
- 2018 – Best Practices and Barriers in Early-Intercept Jail Diversion
- 2019 – Best Practices for Urban Counties: Mental Health Jail Diversion: Policies and Best Practices
- 2019 – Best Practices for Urban Counties: Mental Health and Magistration – A New Approach
- 2019 – Best Practices for Rural Counties: Crisis Intervention Teams in Rural Areas
- 2020 – Juvenile Mental Health Courts & Diversionary Practices
- 2020 – Texas Mental Health Law – What You Need to Know
- 2021 – Mental Health Services as An Option When Calling 911
- 2021 – Risk Assessment Overview
- 2021 – Veteran Initiatives for Diversion from the Criminal Justice System
- 2021 – Shoestring Budget Innovations: Diversion Case Studies
- 2022 – Pretrial Fundamentals for MH and IDD
- 2022 – The Importance of Early Appointment of Counsel in MH & IDD Cases
- 2018 – Changing Lives Through Specialty Courts and Dockets
- 2020 – Starting Mental Health Courts & Diversionary Practices
- 2020 – Juvenile Mental Health Courts & Diversionary Practices
- 2020 – Aligning Services with Mental Health Courts
- 2020 – The Definition of Insanity + Q&A
- 2021 – Mental Health Programs: What Judges Need to Know about Program Evaluations
- 2021 – Reaching Independence through Self-Empowerment Court
- 2022 – Stump the Experts on Mental Health Courts and Dockets
Competency Restoration (OCR, JBCR, Eliminate the Wait, State hospital system)
- 2019 – A View from the State Hospital System
- 2019 – Jail-Based and Outpatient Competency Restoration Panel Discussion: Successful Programs
- 2019 – Best Practices for Rural Counties: Mental Health Programs: Best Practices and Practical Solutions
- 2020 – IDD at Intercept 3: Competency Restoration for People with IDD
- 2020 – Texas Mental Health Law – What You Need to Know
- 2021 – Competency Restoration Crisis – National Perspective
- 2021 – Competency Restoration Crisis – Texas Action Planning
- 2022 – Lessons learned from HHSC Jail In-Reach Collaborative
- 2022 – Year Two of Eliminate the Wait
- 2022 – Developing OCR & JBCR Programs
NGRI (not guilty by reason of insanity)
Social Determinants of Health / Trauma Informed / Stigma
- 2018 – Becoming Trauma-Informed: Updates from DFPS and TJJD
- 2018 – Mental Health and Intellectual and Development Disability (IDD) Literacy
- 2020 – Social Determinants of Mental Health
- 2021 – Keynote Speaker: Pair of Aces
- 2022 – Trauma-Responsive Approach to the Justice System
- 2022 – Incorporating Trauma Informed Care into Juvenile Probation & Courtrooms
- 2022 – Mental Health Stigma
Judicial Mental Health / Secondary Trauma
- 2020 – IDD at Intercept 0: Community Based Services and State Supported Living Centers
- 2020 – IDD at Intercepts 1 – 2: Law Enforcement & Courts
- 2020 – IDD at Intercept 3: Competency Restoration for People with IDD
- 2021 – Resources for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- 2022 – The Creation, Implementation, and Impact of an IDD Docket
- 2022 – Dignity of Risk: Decision Making Supports for People with IDD or Cognitive Impairment