The UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy is pleased to present a special roundtable event with Dale McNiel, PhD regarding outcomes of the Behavioral Health Court (BHC). 

The BHC was created in 2002 in response to the increasing numbers of mentally ill defendants cycling through the jails and courts. Through a collaboration among the Superior Court, Public Defender's Office, District Attorney's Office, Sheriff's Department, Haight Ashbury Free Clinic's Jail Psychiatric Services (JPS), UCSF's Citywide Case Management, and the Department of Public Health, BHC strives to achieve the following goals: 1) connect criminal defendants who suffer from serious mental illness to treatment services in the community; 2) find appropriate dispositions to the criminal charges that consider the mental illness and the seriousness of the offense; and 3) ensure public safety by decreasing recidivism through appropriate mental health treatment and intensive supervision.

McNeil, a professor of clinical psychology and chief psychologist at UCSF's Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and Clinics, will describe how mental health courts work and present data on outcomes.

The event is sponsored by the UCSF School of Medicine and the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy.

We will be offering CME and CLE (1) credit for attending this event.

If you are able to attend and to sign up for CLE credit, please RSVP with your state BAR number to Julia R. Weisner at weisnerj@uchastings.edu