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Find resources and tools for advancing your behavioral health care coordination, criminal justice diversion, and crisis care continuum efforts here.

These resources include products developed by the CARE TA Center, its affiliates, and other state and national organizations, as well as tools and samples from local and county agencies.

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A Community Guide for Development of a Crisis Diversion Facility: A Model for Effective Community Response to Behavioral Health Crisis

The crisis diversion facility model can be a core component of a coordinated, systemic response, bringing health and service sectors together with law enforcement and first responders in a central...

A Comprehensive Crisis System: Ending Unnecessary Emergency Room Admissions and Jail Bookings Associated with Mental Illness

This paper will serve as a roadmap on how to fund and implement a comprehensive crisis system in your community that will lower the overall cost of healthcare and dramatically...

A Decade Undone: Youth Disconnection in the Age of Coronavirus

This report uses data from 2400 public use microdata areas to identify disconnected youth, that is youth who are not involved in school or work.

A Diversion Toolkit for Communities

A Diversion Toolkit for Communities was created for organizations interested in building pre-charge restorative justice diversion (RJD) programs.

A Framework for State/Regional Self-Assessment

This one-page graphic is designed to help states and regions assess their crisis system, from minimally to fully integrated.

A Guide to Laura’s Law

This guidebook starts with a brief history of how Assisted Outpatient Treatment started in California, and then overviews the way AOT works and how to establish it in one's own...

A Guide to Providing Mental Health Services to Immigrants Impacted by Changes to DACA and the COVID-19 Pandemic

This guide was written for those providing or planning to provide mental health and human services to individuals who benefit from DACA.

A Matter of Public Health and Safety: How States Can Support Local Crisis Systems

This resource contains strategies for funding and sustaining local crisis systems, with a focus on ensuring that systems are effective and equitable.

A Model Shared Definition of Serious Mental Illness & Practical Strategies for Its Use to Reduce the Number of People with Mental Illnesses in California’s Jails

This resource provides A definition for Serious Mental Illness.

A potential new form of jail diversion and reconnection to mental health services: II. Demonstration of feasibility

The study tested the feasibility of implementing a new pre-booking diversion program, called the “linkage” system which can support in reducing incarceration. The “linkage” system consists of 3 steps where...

The CARE TA Center is dedicated to helping state, county, and local agencies address the disproportionate impact of behavioral health crisis on diverse communities. These resources include an emphasis on tools for understanding and meeting the needs of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC); linguistically diverse communities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer identified people (LGBTQ); and vulnerable populations such as youth and people experiencing homelessness.