TY - JOUR
AU - Costello, Matthew
AB - The Sequential Intercept Model has helped conceptualize interventions for people with serious mental illness in the criminal/legal system. This paper operationalizes the Sequential Intercept Model into a 35-item scorecard of behavioral health and legal practices. Using interviews, survey, and observational methods, the scorecard assesses an exploratory sample of 19 counties over 27 independent data collections. A series of ordinary least squares regression models assessed the predictor scores on four jail outcomes: prevalence of serious mental illness, length of stay, connections to treatment, and recidivism. Increases in pre-booking scores showed significant decreases in jail prevalence of serious mental illness at the p < 0.05 level, and post-booking scores and overall scores showed significant positive associations with connections to treatment at the p < 0.05 level, though these were non-significant after correcting for multiple comparisons. Preliminary findings suggest a combination of practices across the Sequential Intercept Model could have synergistic impacts on key jail diversion outcomes.
TI - Assessing County-Level Behavioral Health and Justice Systems with the Sequential Intercept Model Practices, Leadership, and Expertise Scorecard
JF - Community Mental Health Journal
DO - 10.1007/s10597-022-01042-5
DA - 2023-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/assessing-county-level-behavioral-health-and-justice-systems-with-the-3y686uWfeE
SP - 578
EP - 594
VL - 59
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -