Advanced Center for Mental Health Services and Criminal Justice Research

这是第二次提交申请，要求为ACISIR提供资金，重点是精神健康和药物滥用服务问题，这些问题是精神病患者遇到刑事司法系统时出现的。行为健康服务和刑事司法研究中心是在NIMH发展中心赠款（P20 MH 661170）的支持下发展起来的，旨在（a）改善MH、SA和CJ系统应对精神疾病患者需求的方式，（B）为旨在影响这些反应的政策和做法提供信息。这一目标是通过促进合作，多学科的研究，是由从业者，政策制定者，倡导者和消费者的专业知识告知。该中心位于罗格斯大学，由南希·沃尔夫博士（罗格斯大学）和杰弗里·德莱恩博士（宾夕法尼亚大学）共同指导。运营、方法、研究和网络核心分别由Wolff博士、Steven Belenko博士、Draine博士和Richard Baron先生（与Wolff博士一起）指导。罗格斯大学提供了MH-SA-CJ系统动力学研究和培训的结构，并协调所有与中心相关的活动。多学科团队位于一个“无国界”的研究环境中，包括位于全国各地的研究人员和研究地点。该中心的核心使命是让利益攸关方参与研究和传播过程的所有阶段，同时建设他们将研究成果应用于实践和决策的能力。在该中心的主持下，研究人员和利益相关者共同追求及时，严格和多学科的MH-SA-CJ服务和干预研究。网络核心侧重于通过地方和网络实践社区建立社交网络，以促进了解研究证据、研究过程、实践和政策动态，以及与CJ系统所涉精神疾病患者有关的挑战。拟议中的高级中心将开发概念上连贯的研究和支持方法，以及一系列研究计划，最终将提交和资助赠款申请，提供将改善实践和政策的研究结果。修订内容包括：增加了7名心理健康干预研究人员，阐明了文化、多样性和定性方法在我们研究中的作用，并开发了三个新的干预项目。

This is a second submission of an application that requests funding for an ACISIR focusing on mental health (MH) and substance abuse (SA) services issues that arise when persons with mental illness have encounters with the criminal justice (CJ) system. The Center for Behavioral Health Services & Criminal Justice Research, developed with support from a NIMH developing center grant (P20 MH661170), seeks to (a) improve the ways in which the MH, SA and CJ systems respond to the needs of persons with mental illness and (b) inform the policies and practices that are intended to affect these responses. This objective is accomplished by fostering collaborative, multi-disciplinary research that is informed by the expertise of practitioners, policymakers, advocates, and consumers. The Center is situated at Rutgers University and co- directed by Drs. Nancy Wolff (Rutgers) and Jeffrey Draine (University of Pennsylvania). The Operations, Methods, Research, and Network cores are directed, respectively, by Dr. Wolff; Dr. Steven Belenko; Dr. Draine; and Mr. Richard Baron (with Dr. Wolff). The Rutgers site provides the structure for research and training in MH-SA-CJ systems dynamics and coordinates all Center-related activities. The multi-disciplinary team is situated in a "borderless" research environment that includes researchers and research sites located across the country. Central to the Center's mission is the involvement of stakeholders at all stages of the research and dissemination process while building their capacity to apply research in practice and in policymaking. Together, under the Center's auspices, researchers and stakeholders pursue timely, rigorous and multi-disciplinary MH-SA-CJ services and intervention research. The Network Core focuses on building social networks, through local and web-based communities of practice to facilitate learning about research evidence, research process, practice and policy dynamics, and challenges related to persons with mental illness involved with the CJ system. The proposed advanced center will develop conceptually coherent research and supporting methods, and a series of research initiatives that will culminate in the submission and funding of grant applications that provide findings that will improve practice and policy. The revision includes: adding 7 MH intervention researchers, clarifying the role of culture, diversity, and qualitative methods in our research, and developing three new intervention projects.