Criminal Justice Liaison Program
Department:
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
Priority Area:
Strong Families and Communities
Program Description
The Criminal Justice Liaison Program (CJLP) is a community program to facilitate communication and coordination between the community, criminal justice, and behavioral health systems to achieve common goals of decriminalizing substance use disorders (SUD), co-occurring disorders (COD), and mental illness (MI). The CJLP supports services that promote diversion activities for persons with SUD, COD, and/or MI who come in contact with the criminal justice system due to an arrest; and provide liaison and case management services to persons with SUD, COD, and/or MI who are incarcerated or at risk of incarceration.
Details
Program Demographic:
Adults, Justice-involved
Delivery Setting:
Organization / Business / Local Government, Correctional Facility, Court, Other Community Setting