Justice Involved Services offered at Greater Lakes Mental Health Care

Offers several programs aimed at helping people with mental illness reduce the number, and severity, of their interactions with police and court systems. Community Re-entry Program: Provides a wrap-around program for individuals with challenging mental health problems. Program focuses on those who have an unusually high number of bookings into local jails. Forensic Assertive Community Treatment - FACT: Offers a two year program that works with Pierce County Superior Court. Provides services to those with a mental health diagnosis that have committed a non-violent felony. Lakewood Cops: Embeds a mental health professional with the Lakewood Police Department to help de-escalate a mental health situation before it becomes a police/courts issue. Jail Transition Services - JTS: Staffs clinicians at local jails. When someone is arrested and has a mental health issue, JTS steps in at the time of the arrest and two months later.

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