• Watch Opioid Treatment Ecosystem Lunch & Learns, Webinars

• Methamphetamine Fact Sheet

• Stimulants: An Emerging Problem (Lakeshore Regional Entity)

The Center for Behavioral Health and Justice is pleased to announce the promotion of Tamarie Willis to Re-entry Projects Manager. Tamarie has served as a coordinator on the Michigan Re-entry Project (MI-REP) since 2018. "I am excited to move into this role as we work on the continued sustainability of our current initiatives, while also seeking to expand the CBHJ's reach into more innovative and needed programming," said Willis.

"We need more robust connections between the traditional 911 and behavioral health systems. Whether that involves recognition at dispatch, training for law enforcement, mobile crisis teams, or crisis stabilization, we need data and evaluation to legitimize and sustain this momentum into lasting system change," said Swanson.

• Alexis Carl, CBHJ graduate research assistant, receives award for highlighting the correlation between serious mental illness and wrongful capital punishment convictions

• Grant Victor, CBHJ Postdoctoral fellow invited to participate in JCOIN LEAP investigator program

• Berrien County's Regional CIT Program achieves national certification

• April 14: Harm Reduction 2: Decriminalizing Buprenorphine (feat. Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit)

• April 22: COVID-19 Communications, Preparedness, and Mitigation: Addressing the Infodemic and Pandemic

• May 13: SIMPLE Scorecard webinar (1.5 CEs) Rescheduled due to technical difficulties

• REPORT: Adoption of Virtual Services in Judicially Led Diversion Programs

• PUBLICATION: Individuals with mental illness who have multiple encounters with law enforcement

• PUBLICATION: Dead Wrong: Capital Punishment, Wrongful Convictions, and Serious Mental Illness

• PUBLICATION: Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Drug Overdoses in Indianapolis

"The jail is part of the community," said Kubiak, stressing that people need to view the situation holistically. "We felt, if we were really going to embrace the public safety aspect of jails — the purpose of the jails, —then it was important to protect the public from people who are positive coming out."

• Review of juvenile justice system offered February 18 (Oakland County Legal News)

• Detroit police working to de-escalate confrontations with the mentally ill (Bridge Michigan)

• Lansing police hired a social worker in 2019. She's changed they way they handle mental health calls (Fox 47 News Lansing)

• City of Detroit program aims to employ returning citizens coming out of jail (WXYZ Detroit)

• Inside the effort to build trust in COVID vaccines (Boston Globe)