Futurity February 29, 2024
Improving access to community-based mental health and substance use disorder services could keep more people out of jail and save counties money, a new study finds.
As reported in the journal Psychiatric Services, the researchers identified 59 recommended mental health practices, but found that United States counties, on average, offered only a few of them.
“The importance of this study is that most counties offer only a tiny fraction of the community services that are necessary to keep people out of jail,” says lead author Jennifer Johnson, professor of public health at Michigan State University.
“We’re hoping that by publishing this article, county administrators will look at the list of services that they don’t yet offer and try to make...
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