Search

"...would provide an alternative to jail for people experiencing mental health crises...."

"...Hernandez has made improving mental health care in jail one of her top priorities..."

"...Travis County’s mental health diversion pilot – aimed at providing psychiatric care..."

"...much of their time to developing new routes for mental health diversion – instead of sending folks to jail,..."

"...I didn't do that." The stigma of suicide and mental illness caused a snowball effect in Ranus' family. First,..."

"...those that have the power to mitigate a growing mental health crisis agree: It can’t be done within the..."

"...some movement on Travis County's plan to build a diversion center to redirect people with mental illness away from..."

"...activists who would rather see the county invest in mental health and substance abuse services than expand its jail..."

"...with post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, or other mental health issues who have gotten sideways with the law..."

"...friends instantaneously. But JJ also had a history of mental illness and drug use, so when Mark drove in..."

"...integral to Travis County’s efforts to divert people with mental illness away from the criminal justice system...."

"...this anniversary with a mini ball presented by sexual health heavy-hitters ASHwell and the Q Austin, meaning there’s money,..."

"...Street clinic, which has offered family planning and reproductive health services to low-income and uninsured women since the early..."

"...• Mental Health Care: Eckhardt talked of efforts to reduce the..."

"...assistant state attorney general, and complex civil litigation on health care. The presiding incumbent in the 53rd is Scott..."

"...Chisum, R-Pampa, is now proposing an amendment that women's health care advocates say would completely undo the state's system..."

"...Mental Health Diversion: City and county leaders commit to a..."

"...is making to Central Booking in anticipation of its mental health diversion pilot, such as recruiting efforts at the..."

"...justice system. It's all about having access to treatment, mental health services, employment, housing. Crime is a symptom of..."

"...first time on this kind of misdemeanor are offered diversion programs and never see the inside of a courtroom,..."

"...reckoning with the need for reform: restorative justice, pretrial diversions, support and services for both defendants and victims/survivors. These..."

"...a "life sentence," Case favors expanding the current pretrial diversion program run through the 167th court. Diver­sion and specialty..."

"...this seat for more than two decades. Wisser was instrumental in setting up the county's drug diversion court, one..."

"...office, one of my priorities was that state court environmental prosecutions were sporadic, and the feds were cutting back..."

"...2010, a nonprofit advocating for access to food and health care, with which the county has partnered on COVID..."

"...Texas Senate, from immigration to LGBTQ rights to women's health. On education, he hopes to adequately fund public schools..."

"...to a variety of social services and criminal justice diversion programs...."

"...the energy to put into something that could absolutely, fundamentally change and positively affect people's lives [and not do..."

"...possession cases away from state jail felony prosecutions; promoting diversion and treatment programs; creating the Civil Rights Unit (along..."

"...empathetic judge can spot people in need of urgent mental health care...."