Journal article
Building Community Capacity to Help Persons with Mental Illness: A Program Evaluation
Journal of community practice, Vol.15(4), pp.73-96
12/01/2007
DOI: 10.1300/J125v15n04_04
Abstract
In a time of crisis, persons with mental illness who encounter the police are often sent to jail or are involuntarily committed for psychiatric evaluation when mental health services are not readily available. To better serve these persons and the community, law enforcement and mental health professionals in one Iowa county joined together to ensure these individuals received the assessment and treatment needed. The results of a mixed methods program evaluation are detailed and suggest that the process to develop the program was as critical as the conduct of the program itself. Implications for program development are discussed.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Building Community Capacity to Help Persons with Mental Illness: A Program Evaluation
- Creators
- Jeanne A Saunders - Social Work , University of IowaBillie M. A Marchik - University of Iowa School of Social Work, Des Moines Education Center
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of community practice, Vol.15(4), pp.73-96
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- DOI
- 10.1300/J125v15n04_04
- ISSN
- 1070-5422
- eISSN
- 1543-3706
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/2007
- Academic Unit
- Social Work
- Record Identifier
- 9984083295302771
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