Based on the successful implementation of SBDI in Connecticut, CHDI is helping eight schools in Michigan and Louisiana launch and sustain school responder models to reduce school-based arrests, expulsions, and suspensions, and improve student outcomes through connections with behavioral health services. This work is part of a study funded by the National Institute of Justice and led by Policy Research Associates seeking to identify the effectiveness of "school responder models." The implementation and research study will run through June 2019.
CHDI is also helping communities in Pima County, Arizona and Rochester, New York develop school responder models for youth with behavioral health needs with support from the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice at Policy Research Associates. The consultation project is funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the US Department of Justice as a component of their School-Justice Partnership Project to keep kids in school and out of court.
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