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Commonly Used Measures of Mental Health Court Performance

Process Measures

  • Number of liaison contacts between treatment providers and mental health court participants
  • Number of provider agencies involved with mental health court participants
  • Percentage referred to the mental health court diagnosed with a mental illness
  • Length of time from treatment referral to a treatment start date
  • Number of treatment contacts
  • Type of treatment received
  • Amount of treatment received
  • Number of target population correctly identified as needing mental health services
  • Duration of treatment engagement
  • Intensity of treatment (calculated by number of treatment episodes and total number of minutes of treatment received during pre- and post-referral periods)

Outcome Measures

  • Change in mental health status
  • Change in substance use
  • Length of mental health court participation
  • Speed of case resolution
  • Improved client functioning
  • Percent of cases with charges resolved within specified timeframe
  • Percent of cases that no longer need court-facilitated mental health treatment within specified timeframe
  • Percent of participants successfully completing mental health court
  • Perception of fairness of court processing between mental health court and traditional court participants
  • Number of arrests one year prior to mental health court participation versus one year following discharge from the mental health court

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