Specifications include, but are not limited to: - Obtain understanding of current system and barriers through use of the needs and resource assessment, as well as interviews/discussions with providers, behavioral health and justice systems partners, consumers, and family members. - Create systems maps to understand how the current system works. - Facilitate a cross-system data workgroup and carry out a focused project on a targeted sample of people that are high utilizers of the system. - Determine how to best utilize currently available data between systems and how to link data between the systems together in the future. - Utilizing data, consumers, systems partners, etc., determine who is/is not receiving treatment, barriers to access to care, the number of people negatively affected by the current system, what the capacity of the system is, and other relevant issues to understand and quantify the scope of the problem in Rock County. - Identify key strategic intercept points and opportunities in the system for intervention and diversion from the justice system. - Research evidence-based and best practices regarding behavioral health and AODA treatment in general and for those involved in the criminal justice system as necessary. - Compare current behavioral health and criminal justice programs in Rock County to best and evidence-based practicesmay include review of program materials and discussions with treatment staff.
