Earlier this year, the Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project, operated by the Council of State Governments, launched the online Criminal Justice / Mental Health Information Network (InfoNet).  This sophisticated, interactive database will become the repository for information on programs and initiatives operating where the criminal justice and mental health systems intersect.  The InfoNet project represents an outgrown and expansion of the Consensus Project’s Program Profiles Database, which has been co-maintained by the National GAINS Center since early 2005. 

At this point, InfoNet provides an opportunity for programs involving a Specialized Police Response to People with Mental Illness, as well as Mental Health Court programs, to register their information through the completion of web-based program surveys.  Additional surveys focused on Non-Specialty Court models of jail diversion, as well as programs providing mental health services within jails and prisons are currently in development and will be debuted in the near future.  

The GAINS Center encourages you to explore the resources available though the CJ/MH InfoNet, available online at www.cjmh-infonet.org. 

If you would like to search the program surveys currently maintained by the GAINS Center, please click here.