Jessica Hwang

Brian A. Jackson

Claude Messan Setodji

Lane F. Burgette

Caroline Stevens

Erinn Herberman

Stephanie Ann Kovalchik

Katie Mugg

Meagan Cahill

Joshua Lawrence Traub

In this report, researchers explore measurement methods to assess how information-sharing affects criminal justice outcomes and offer lessons for future policy evaluation and information system design.

Developing Approaches to Measure the Effects of Information-Sharing on Criminal Justice Outcomes

Knowing More, But Accomplishing What?

Katherine E. Watkins

M. Audrey Burnam

Edward N. Okeke

In 2004, California voters passed the Mental Health Services Act, which was intended to transform California's community mental health system from a crisis-driven system to one that included a focus on prevention and wellness. The vision was that prevention and early intervention (PEI) services comprised the first step in a continuum of services designed to identify early symptoms and prevent mental illness from becoming severe and disabling. Twenty percent of the act's funding was dedicated to PEI services. The act identified seven negative outcomes that PEI programs were intended to reduce: suicide, mental health-related incarcerations, school failure, unemployment, prolonged suffering, homelessness, and removal of children from the home. The Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (MHSOAC) coordinated with the California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA), an independent administrative and fiscal intergovernmental agency, to seek development of a statewide framework for evaluating and monitoring the short- and long-term impact of PEI funding on the population. CalMHSA selected the RAND Corporation to develop a framework for the statewide evaluation. This report describes the approach, the data sources, and the frameworks developed: an overall approach framework and outcome-specific frameworks.

Evaluating the Impact of Prevention and Early Intervention Activities on the Mental Health of California's Population

Claude Messan Setodji

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