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A Best Practice Approach To Community Re-entry From Jails for Inmates With Co-occurring Disorders: The APIC Model
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Steadman, Henry |  Barr, Heather
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Description: Almost all inmates with co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders will leave correctional settings and return to the community. Inadequate transition planning puts people with co-occurring disorders who enter jail in a state of crisis back on the streets in the middle of the same crisis. The outcomes of inadequate transition planning include the compromise of public safety, an increased incidence of psychiatric symptoms, relapse to substance abuse, hospitalization, suicide, homelessness, and re-arrest. While there are no outcomes studies to guide evidence-based transition planning practices, there is enough guidance from the multi-site studies of the organization of jail mental health programs to propose a best practice model. This manuscript presents one such model - APIC. The APIC Model is a set of critical elements that, if implemented, are likely to improve outcomes for persons with co-occurring disorders who are released from jail. (Authors)
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Osher, Fred C.
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Type of Resource: Report
Organization: National GAINS Center
Publication Date: 2002
Phone: 410-646-3511
   
 
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