The TA Center oversees programs and provides resources for behavioral health and justice system leaders to learn from and engage with each other on various topics.
The Housing Learning Community is a six-month initiative designed to support multidisciplinary teams across Texas working to improve housing access for people who are justice-involved and living with mental illness, substance use disorders, or intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Eliminate the Wait is a statewide campaign to reduce wait times for inpatient competency restoration services and improve outcomes for people found incompetent to stand trial.
The Jail In-Reach Learning Community is a peer-to-peer learning opportunity for county teams to identify strategies to actively monitor people who have been found incompetent to stand trial and to reduce the wait times for inpatient competency restoration services.
The Pre-Arrest Diversion Learning Collaborative had teams of behavioral health and law enforcement professionals develop strategies to prevent the arrest and incarceration of people with mental illness, substance use disorders, and disabilities.
The Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) Community of Practice gathered teams of behavioral health and justice professionals to advance action planning priorities previously identified during SIM mapping workshops.
The Suicide Care in Texas Juvenile Justice Settings Learning Collaborative had Texas county teams work together to implement strategies to reduce suicide risk among justice-involved youth.
The Texas Behavioral Health and Justice Webinar Series is an ongoing topical learning series for behavioral health and justice system stakeholders.
The Competency Restoration Guide provides an overview of the competency restoration process, a set of principles to support a more efficient and effective system, and supplemental guidance to determine the most appropriate competency restoration placement.
The TA center has developed resources, templates and tools to support behavioral health and justice system planning in communities around Texas.
The Reentry Learning Collaborative will support local teams in developing comprehensive reentry programs that provide continuity of care and recovery support for people with mental illness or co-occurring substance use disorders who are returning to the community following incarceration.