CJHS/410

MENTAL HEALTH AND CRISIS INTERVENTIONS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE

CJHS 410 Entire Course

CJHS410 Week 1 Skills and Characteristics of Mental Health Paper

Select a mental health or crisis intervention human service delivery system within criminal justice, such as a domestic violence program within a police department.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper about your selected system in which you address the following:

• Describe the services provided by your selected mental health or crisis intervention human service delivery system.
• Describe the general characteristics and skills needed to effectively deliver mental health and crisis intervention services.
• How do the characteristics, skills, and actions needed by an agent of the government differ from those skills needed by social workers or practitioners in mental health?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Include a minimum of three academic references.

CJHS410 Week 2 Future Trends Presentation

Select a future trend of crisis intervention and mental health services within the law enforcement system.

Create a 7- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation about your selected trend with detailed speaker notes.

Include the following in your presentation:

• Overview of the trend
• How the trend will affect the practice of crisis intervention within law enforcement
• How the trend will affect the practice of mental health within law enforcement
• Potential law enforcement challenges associated with the trend
• Recommendations on how law enforcement can proactively address the trend to include:

  • Training, policy, practice, potential issues

Use complete sentences, with correct grammar and punctuation, to fully explain each slide as if you were giving an in-person presentation.

Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.

Include a minimum of three academic references.

CJHS410 Week 3 Addiction and Crime Presentation

Create a 7- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with detailed speaker notes. Use complete sentences, with correct grammar and punctuation, to fully explain each slide as if you were giving an in-person presentation.

Include the following in your presentation:

• The characteristics of addiction and substance abuse
• A description of how crime is related to addiction
• The role of criminal justice professionals in providing intervention and rehabilitation to substance abuse offenders

Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.

Include a minimum of three academic references.

CJHS410 Week 3 Case Study on Memphis Model

Resources: City of Kelsey Demographics; this week’s ERR article Critical elements of the crisis intervention team model of jail diversion: An expert survey; and The National Alliance on Mental Illness website (http://www.nami.org/)

Navigate to the City of Kelsey Demographics.

• Click the Virtual Organizations link.
• Click Government.
• Click City of Kelsey.
• Click City Government.
• Click Kelsey Profile.

Review the city demographics.

Create a Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) proposal for the City of Kelsey based on the Memphis Model. Use the City of Kelsey to obtain the following demographic data:

• Population
• Demographic
• Socioeconomic status

Include the following in your proposal:

• The goal of the program
• The rationale of this program in providing applied intervention strategies to people with mental illness
• The CIT team members
• The type of training offices should receive
• How the community is involved

Format your proposal consistent with APA guidelines.

Include a minimum of three academic references.

CJHS410 Week 4 Program Report

Research one of the following programs:

• Domestic Violence
• Sexual Assault
• Child Abuse
• Elder Abuse
• Juvenile Delinquency

Note. Confer with you team to ensure each team member does not select the same type of program. Your team should discuss a variety of programs in the Team Report Review assignment.

Write a 1,400- to 2,450-word report about your selected program that addresses the following:

• The type of family system in crisis the program was designed to help
• The mission of the program
• How the program was designed
• How services are delivered
• Intervention strategies used in this program
• How the program is evaluated
• Research in regards to program effectiveness or ineffectiveness
• Format your report consistent with APA guidelines.
• Include a minimum of three academic references.

CJHS410 Week 4 Team Report Review

Exchange your individual report and research findings with a member of your team.

Review your teammate’s report and research findings.

Meet as a team and discuss the similarities and differences of the different programs. In particular, consider the family system the program addressed, the interventions used, and the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of the program.

As a team, write a 350- to 700-word summary of your team discussion.

CJHS410 Week 5 Intervention Response Plan

The chief of police of the local police department has approached your team to develop an Interagency Mental Health and Crisis Intervention Response Plan that includes local, state, and federal crisis intervention agencies and other emergency and private resources for the purpose of responding to a terrorist event or natural disaster. The chief has informed you that he is concerned that many cities, including his own, do not have a written mental health response plan for critical incidents.

Create a 10- to 15-slideMicrosoft® PowerPoint® presentation to present to the chief of police that details your interagency Mental Health and Crisis Intervention Response Plan. Consider demographics, resources, and needs of the department and community while creating the plan.

Include the following in your presentation:

• Introductory section on the various types of critical incidents and their physical, financial, and societal effect on victims, first responders and communities and how this plan can address that impact.

• What local, state, and federal Human Service Delivery organizations you would choose to be a part of this plan and why you specifically chose these organizations.

• Outline of the specific mental health and crisis response for a critical incident discussing the various types of possible critical incidents that this plan would apply to.

• What the specific crisis response duties of those individual organizations will be in the event of a terrorist attack or major catastrophic event and how they will work with your department in responding to a critical incident.

If one organization should be the lead in the event, and how that responsibility would be decided

Include a minimum of three academic references.

CJHS410 Week 5 Psychological Support Agency

Develop the framework for an ideal psychological support agency to respond to a national catastrophic event.

Write a 1,400- to 2,450-word report that details the psychological support framework.

Include the following in your report:

• The size of the agency
• Qualifications and skills of the employees
• Services provided
• The key components of the agency and its overarching mission
• How the agency can work with other organizations and what role the criminal justice system would play in this agency, if any.

Format the report consistent with APA guidelines

Include a minimum of three academic references.