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Overview
Why You Should Attend
The justice system is, too often, the entry point for treatment and other services for people with behavioral health disorders. A recent report by the National Judicial Task Force to Examine State Courts’ Responses to Mental Illness recommends coordination by state and local courts, behavioral health and other community partners, and other state and federal agencies to better meet the needs of justice-involved individuals with serious mental illness. This program will examine how the courts and other entities in New York are working together on these challenges.
What You Will Learn
After completing this program, participants will be able to:
- Understand current and proposed initiatives to divert people with serious mental illness from the justice system and promote collaboration between courts and communities.
- Understand legal principles, procedures and policy considerations regarding involuntary inpatient and outpatient treatment.
- Understand New York’s efforts to improve efficiency and outcomes in proceedings to evaluate and restore competency to stand trial.
- Understand issues of professional responsibility related to the representation of parents and/or children with mental health issues involved in child welfare, domestic relations, and juvenile justice cases.
Who Should Attend
This program is designed for New York State judges, court attorneys, law clerks, prosecutors, defense attorneys, attorneys in private practice, and mental health system professionals involved in the New York State justice system.
This years’ program is being cosponsored by the CUCS Academy for Justice Informed Practice.
Program Level: Update
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Preparation: None
Lecture Topics [Total time 00:06:45]
Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program.
- Opening Remarks* [00:11:59]
Hon. Joseph A. Zayas, J.S.C. - Deflection & Diversion to Treatment, Court & Community Collaboration, and Person-Centered Justice [01:29:02]
Helen "Skip" Skipper, Sherene Crawford, Denise Balzer, LCSW, Hon. Toko Serita, ASCJ, Hon. Matthew J. D'Emic - Involuntary Treatment: Law, Procedures and Policy [01:29:36]
Brian Stettin, Esq., Monica Brooker, PhD, Sadie Zea Ishee, Carol Fisler, Perri Bernstein, LMSW - Reforming the Competency to Stand Trial System [01:30:56]
Li-Wen Lee, MD, Sara Dayan, Lisa Callahan, Ph.D., Virginia Barber Rioja, Ph.D., Katherine LeGeros Bajuk - Ethical Considerations for Attorneys Working with Children, Youth & Families with Mental Illness [01:30:53]
Stephen R. Weisbeck, Kristen Anne Conklin, Christine Bruno, Hon. Anne-Marie Jolly, Hon. Edwina G. Richardson
The purchase price of this Web Program includes the following articles from the Course Handbook available online:
- Complete Course Handbook
- Judging in a Mental Health Court (September 6, 2023)
Matthew D’Emic - NYS Continuum of Crisis Services
Denise Balzer - Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice, Center for Court Innovation, Community Justice Today: Values, Guiding Principles, and Models (November 2022)
Sherene Crawford - Plenty of Science, Just Not Enough Passion Accelerating the Pace of Felony Decarceration
Joe Barrett,Julian Adler - Mental Health and Justice: The Manhattan Misdemeanor Mental Health Court
Danielle Mindess,Robert Wolf,Sherene Crawford - The NYC Justice Peer Initiative: Crafting a “Lived Experience”: Response to the Criminalization of Behavioral Health and Mass Incarceration
Helen Skipper - State Courts Leading Change: Report and Recommendations (October 2022; Revised February 2023)
Christine Edwards,Carol Fisler - Civil Psychiatric Hospitalization & Treatment in New York: Statutory and Constitutional Frameworks
Sadie Ishee - Creating a Culture of Engagement for Unsheltered New Yorkers with Severe Mental Illness
Brian Stettin - Policy Research Associates, Competence to Stand Trial Flowchart
Lisa Callahan - New Model for Collaborative Court and Community Caseflow Management, Institutionalize Alternative Pathways to Treatment and Recovery and Improve Outcomes: Essential Element 2: Civil Responses
Christine Edwards,Carol Fisler - Reforming the Competency to Stand Trial System: Major Issues and Recommendations
Carol Fisler,David Kelly,Katherine Bajuk,Sara Dayan - Criminal Procedure Law § 730: Fitness to Proceed under New York Law
David Kelly,Sara Dayan - Regarding Mental and Cognitive Issues, Criminal Justice System Must Catch Up (February 1, 2017)
Katherine Bajuk - Best Practices Mental Health Focus: Fitness to Proceed/CPL 730
Katherine Bajuk - Excerpts from NYSBA Report and Recommendations of the Task Force on Mental Health and Trauma Informed Representation (April 2023): Overview of Criminal Justice Recommendations; Reforming the Competency to Stand Trial System
Katherine Bajuk - Ethical Considerations for Attorneys Working with Children, Youth & Families with Mental Illness
Edwina Richardson-Mendelson - Ethical Considerations for Attorneys Working with Children, Youth & Families with Mental Illness
Edwina Richardson-Mendelson - Formal Opinion 2018-1: Protective Action, and Disclosures of Confidential Information, to Benefit a Prospective Client with Diminished Capacity
Christine Edwards,Carol Fisler - Formal Opinion 2022-3: Copying Clients on Email Communications with Other Counsel
Christine Edwards,Carol Fisler - In re Justice T., 19 A.D.3d 1079 (2005)
Kristen Conklin - In re Philip R., 293 A.D.2d 547 (2002)
Kristen Conklin - In the Matter Le et al., 168 Misc.2d 384 (1995)
Kristen Conklin - In the Matter of Shawndalaya II., 31 A.D.3d 823 (2006)
Kristen Conklin - New York State Bar Association, Committee on Professional Ethics—Opinion 746 (July 18, 2001)
Kristen Conklin - New York State Bar Association, Committee on Professional Ethics—Opinion 1224 (June 3, 2021)
Kristen Conklin - Rachel Velcoff Hults, Dana Paycao and Rebecca Gudeman, Judicial Bench Guide: Supporting the Mental Health of Children & Youth in Family Court
Anne-Marie Jolly - The Benefits of Upstream for Courts
Christine Edwards,Carol Fisler - Additional Resources
Christine Edwards,Carol Fisler
Presentation Material
- Sequential Intercept Model
- Deflection & Diversion to Treatment, Court & Community Collaboration, and Person-Centered Justice
Sherene Crawford - Psychiatric Civil Commitment and Involuntary Treatment in New York
Sadie Zea Ishee - Case Studies - Involuntary Treatment: Law, Procedures & Policy
- Reforming the Competency to Stand Trial System
Katherine LeGeros Bajuk, Lisa Callahan, Ph.D., Sara Dayan, Li-Wen Lee, MD, Virginia Barber Rioja, Ph.D. - Ethical Challenges for Parent Defenders
Christine Bruno
Why You Should Attend
The justice system is, too often, the entry point for treatment and other services for people with behavioral health disorders. A recent report by the National Judicial Task Force to Examine State Courts’ Responses to Mental Illness recommends coordination by state and local courts, behavioral health and other community partners, and other state and federal agencies to better meet the needs of justice-involved individuals with serious mental illness. This program will examine how the courts and other entities in New York are working together on these challenges.
What You Will Learn
After completing this program, participants will be able to:
- Understand current and proposed initiatives to divert people with serious mental illness from the justice system and promote collaboration between courts and communities.
- Understand legal principles, procedures and policy considerations regarding involuntary inpatient and outpatient treatment.
- Understand New York’s efforts to improve efficiency and outcomes in proceedings to evaluate and restore competency to stand trial.
- Understand issues of professional responsibility related to the representation of parents and/or children with mental health issues involved in child welfare, domestic relations, and juvenile justice cases.
Who Should Attend
This program is designed for New York State judges, court attorneys, law clerks, prosecutors, defense attorneys, attorneys in private practice, and mental health system professionals involved in the New York State justice system.
This years’ program is being cosponsored by the CUCS Academy for Justice Informed Practice.
Program Level: Update
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Preparation: None