Resources by Topic
Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT)
- Texas Competency Restoration Guide (March 2024)
- Leading Reform: Competence to Stand Trial Systems – National Center for State Courts, National Judicial Task Force to Examine State Courts’ Response to Mental Illness (2021)
- Just and Well: Rethinking How State Approach Competency to Stand Trial CSG Justice Center (2020)
- Policy Research Associates, Competency to Stand Trial Website
Cross-Agency Behavioral Health Initiatives
- Report on the Harris County Mental Health Jail Diversion Pilot Program for fiscal year 2016; Health and Human Services Commission (Feb. 2017)
- The Challenge of Identifying, Diverting, and Treating Justice-Involved People with Mental Illnesses: Review of Texas Policies and Recommendations for Improvements (Dec. 2018) - Dr. Tony Fabelo, Ph.D., The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
- Building Exits off the Highway to Mass Incarceration: Diversion Programs Explained – Prison Policy Initiative
- Collaborative Court and Community Diversion for Individuals with Behavioral Health Needs – National Center for State Courts, National Judicial Task Force to Examine State Courts’ Response to Mental Illness (2021)
- A New Model for Collaborative Court and Community Caseflow Management – National Center for State Courts, National Judicial Task Force to Examine State Courts’ Response to Mental Illness (2021)
- A comprehensive study on best practice standards for the detention of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities as mandated by HB3116
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Mental Health Wellness for Individuals with IDD; An online, self-paced training that HHSC developed on the mental health needs of people with IDD. Created for direct service workers, the course is for anyone who supports people with IDD and consists of 6 modules that can be taken separately.
- 23rd Edition: Texas Laws Relating to Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities Reflecting changes in law passed by the 87th Legislature, Regular Session (2021) - Chris Lopez, Texas Health and Human Services Commission
- Texas Judicial Council: 2020 Criminal Justice Committee Report and Recommendations
- Report on the 86th Legislative Session; National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) (2019)
- Texas Judicial Council Mental Health Committee Report & Recommendations (2016)
- Interim Report to the 85th Texas Legislature, House Select Committee on Mental Health (Dec. 2016)
- Texas Criminal Procedure and the Offender with Mental Illness: An Analysis and Guide, Brian D. Shannon, Paul Whitfield Horn Professor, and Daniel H. Benson, Paul Whitfield Horn Professor, Texas Tech University School of Law; (6th Ed. 2019).
Published by NAMI Texas through a grant from the Texas Bar Foundation
- JCMH-Created Resources
- JCMH Summit Videos on Mental Health Courts
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
- 2018
- National Resources
- A Guide to Mental Health Court Design and Implementation
- Mental Health Courts: A Guide to Research-Informed Policy and Practice
- A Guide to Collecting Mental Health Court Outcome Data
- Center for Court Innovation: Treatment Courts
- Mental Health Courts Learning Modules
- NPC Research
- Justice Counts
- NAMI (Mental Health Courts)
- Bureau of Justice Assistance
- National Drug Court Resource Center
- SAMHSA - Treatment Court Locator
- National Drug Court Institute - Online Courses
- Other Texas Resources
- Mental Health Court Studies
- State Hospital System and Opportunities for Texas
Presentation by:
Mike Maples
Deputy Executive Commissioner
Health and Specialty Care System
Systemic Initiatives for Courts
- Building a Trauma-Informed Child Welfare System: A Blueprint, Texas Children's Commission (2019)
- Texas Child Protection Law Bench Book ; Texas Children's Commission (2022)
- Website: Mental Health and Behavioral Health; Texas Education Agency
- Parent Resource Guide; Children's Commission
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