Past Convenings

2013: Collaborative Leadership: Mental Health and Justice System Partners

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In January 2013, Words to Deeds inaugurated the Paradigm Awards, recognizing and celebrating leaders in criminal justice and mental health who champion efforts to end the criminalization of individuals with mental illness by supporting proven strategies that promote early intervention, access to effective treatments, a planned reentry, and the preservation of public safety.

Launching the November 2013 Words to Deeds program, Santa Clara County Judge Richard Loftus, Chair of the California Judicial Council’s Mental Health Issues Implementation Task Force, and Judge Steven Leifman, from Miami-Dade County, Florida, and the Council of State Governments Justice Leadership Initiative, inspired “first adapter” attendees from statewide mental health and justice systems to pursue collaborative leadership and achieve their problem-solving goals.

  • Program

    Program 2013

  • Presentation & Materials

    • Trudy Raymundo, County of San Bernadino, Reentry Collaborative Strategic Plan
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    • The Gains Center’s Sequential Intercept Model
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    • Sheriff Geoff Dean & Kiran Sahota, Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) Program Ventura County
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    • Judge Richard J Loftus Jr., Superior Court of Santa Clara County, The Mentally Ill and California Criminal Justice The Issues and Challenges of Collaboration
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    • Jennifer Johnson, J.D., Behavioral Health Court, The Collaborative Process Post Arrest
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  • Report

    Summary of Task Force for Criminal Justice Collaboration on Mental Health Issues Final Report

  • Attendee List

    Attendee List 2013

  • Paradigm Awards

    • Law Enforcement Champions: Curtis Hill – Former San Benito County Sheriff Coroner, Former Executive Officer, California Board of State and Community Corrections and Lee Baca – Los Angeles County Sheriff
      Presented by Adam Christianson – Stanislaus County Sheriff; 1st Vice President, California State Sheriffs’ Association and David Meyer, Esq. – Institute of Psychiatry, Law and Behavioral Sciences University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
    • State Champion: Darrell Steinberg – Senate President Pro Tempore
      Presented by Pat Ryan – California Mental Health Directors Association
    • County Champions: Scott Macdonald – Santa Cruz County Probation Chief and Jennifer Johnson – San Francisco County Public Defender
      Presented by Mack Jenkins – San Diego Probation Chief and David Meyer, Esq. – Institute of Psychiatry, Law and Behavioral Sciences University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
    • Judicial Champion: Judge Stephen Manley – Santa Clara Superior Court
      Presented by Sharon Aungst – Partnership for Community Excellence, California Forward
    • Community Champions: Mark Gale – California Treatment Advocacy Coalition, Former Chair, NAMI California Government Affairs and Public Policy Committee and Criminal Justice Workgroup and Tona Wakefield – Bringing Our Community Home, Santa Barbara
      Presented by Sharon Aungst – Partnership for Community Excellence, California Forward and Bill Brown – Santa Barbara Sheriff-Coroner
    • Lifetime Achievement Awards: David Meyer – Clinical Professor and Research Scholar, Institute of Psychiatry, Law and Behavioral Sciences, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and Helen Thomson – State and County Elected Official
      Presented by Patricia Ryan – California Mental Health Directors Association (Retired) and Patricia Ryan – California Mental Health Directors Association (Retired)