6045.2
. (a) A county shall be eligible to apply for either an adult
mentally ill offender grant or a juvenile mentally ill offender
grant or both in accordance with all other provisions of this
article. The board shall provide a separate and competitive grant
application and award process for each of the adult and juvenile
mentally ill offender crime reduction grant categories. The board
shall endeavor to assist counties that apply for grants in both
categories in meeting any grant submission requirements that may
overlap between the two categories of grants.
(b) (1) A county that applies for an adult mentally ill offender
grant shall establish a strategy committee to design the grant
application that includes, at a minimum, the sheriff or director of
the county department of corrections in a county where the sheriff
does not administer the county jail system, who shall chair the
committee, and representatives from other local law enforcement
agencies, the chief probation officer, the county mental health
director, a superior court judge, a former offender who is or has
been a client of a mental health treatment facility, and
representatives from organizations that can provide or have provided
treatment or stabilization services for mentally ill offenders,
including treatment, housing, income or job support, and caretaking.
(2) A county that applies for a juvenile mentally ill offender
grant shall establish a strategy committee that includes, at a
minimum, the chief probation officer who shall chair the committee,
representatives from local law enforcement agencies, the county
mental health director, a superior court judge, a client or former
offender who has received juvenile mental health services, and
representatives from organizations that can provide or have provided
treatment or support services for mentally ill juvenile offenders,
including therapy, education, employment, housing, and caretaking
services.
(3) A county that applies for both types of grants may convene a
combined strategy committee that includes the sheriff or jail
administrator and the chief probation officer as cochairs of the
committee, as well as representation from the other agencies,
departments, and disciplines designated in paragraphs (1) and (2) for
both types of committees.
(c) The strategy committee shall develop and describe in its grant
application a comprehensive county plan for providing a
cost-effective continuum of responses and services for mentally ill
adult offenders or mentally ill juvenile offenders, including
prevention, intervention, and incarceration-based services, as
appropriate. The plan shall describe how the responses and services
included in the plan have been proven to be or are designed to be
effective in addressing the mental health needs of the target
offender population, while also reducing recidivism and custody
levels for mentally ill offenders in adult or juvenile detention or
correctional facilities. Strategies for prevention, intervention, and
incarceration-based services in the plan shall include, but not be
limited to, all of the following:
(1) Mental health and substance abuse treatment for mentally ill
adult offenders or mentally ill juvenile offenders who are presently
placed, incarcerated, or housed in a local adult or juvenile
detention or correctional facility or who are under supervision by
the probation department after having been released from a state or
local adult or juvenile detention or correctional facility.
(2) Prerelease, reentry, continuing, and community-based services
designed to provide long-term stability for juvenile or adult
offenders outside of the facilities of the adult or juvenile justice
systems, including services to support a stable source of income, a
safe and decent residence, and a conservator or caretaker, as needed
in appropriate cases.
(3) For mentally ill juvenile offender applications, one or more
of the following strategies that has proven to be effective or has
evidence-based support for effectiveness in the remediation of mental
health disorders and the reduction of offending: short-term and
family-based therapies, collaborative interagency service agreements,
specialized court-based assessment and disposition tracks or
programs, or other specialized mental health treatment and
intervention models for juvenile offenders that are proven or
promising from an evidence-based perspective.
(d) The plan as included in the grant application shall include
the identification of specific outcome and performance measures and
for annual reporting on grant performance and outcomes to the board
that will allow the board to evaluate, at a minimum, the
effectiveness of the strategies supported by the grant in reducing
crime, incarceration, and criminal justice costs related to mentally
ill offenders. The board shall, in the grant application process,
provide guidance to counties on the performance measures and
reporting criteria to be addressed in the application.