Advancing Community-Based Solutions for Justice-Involved People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders

Advancing Community-Based Solutions for Justice-Involved People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders is organized by Quantum Units Education.

Release Date: 01/03/2020
EXpire Date:01/03/2023

CE Course Description:
The Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) was created to help communities understand and improve the interactions between criminal justice systems and people with mental and substance use disorders.  This CE course lists data points and measures that are essential to addressing how people with mental and substance use disorders flow through that intercept.  Common challenges with data collection and ways to overcome them, along with practice examples of how information is being used in the field is also discussed.

CE Course Objectives
• Describe the important component of each of the six intercepts.
• Determine when reentry planning begins.
• Explain when the Sequential Intercept Model is most effective.
• Provide three ways that communities can use the Sequential Intercept Model.

CE Outline with Main Points:
• The Sequential Intercept Model
? History and Impact of the Sequential Intercept Model
? Sequential Intercept Model as a Strategic Planning Tool
? Data Collection Across the Sequential Intercept Model: Essential Measures
• Intercept 0: Crisis Care and First Response Continuum
? Intercept 1: Law Enforcement Calls and Responses
? Intercept 2: Intake, Booking, and Bond Setting / Review
? Intercept 3: Courts and Incarceration in Jail or Prison
? Intercept 4: Reentry
? Intercept 5: Community Corrections