Justice Center

Recent

"Therapeutic Jurisprudence" by Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage. Alaska Justice Forum 26(1): 10–12 (Spring 2009).

Publications

"Evaluating the Anchorage Mental Health Court" by Teresa W. Carns. Alaska Justice Forum 18(4): 2 (Winter 2002).

Alaska

Alaska Court System: Mental health courts

Both the Justice Center (above) and the Alaska Judicial Council have published a number of articles and studies related to Alaska Court System problem-solving courts.

General information

• Alaska Therapeutic Courts—General Information. General description of how therapeutic courts in the Alaska Court System work.
• Alaska Trial Courts—Therapeutic Courts. List of thereapeutic courts (from which the list below is derived).

Mental health courts

• Anchorage Coordinated Resources Project (CRP): Anchorage Mental Health Court. Misdemeanors.
• Fairbanks Juvenile Treatment Court (FJTC). Excludes violent and sexual offenses.
• Palmer Coordinated Resources Project (CRP). Misdemeanors.

Alaska Judicial Council publications

Court Coordinated Resources Project Evaluation Report by Teresa W. Carns, Susan McKelvie, Pat Scott, Kathy Grabowski, Alan R. McKelvie, and Melissa Wininger. Anchorage, AK: Alaska Judicial Council, Jan 2003.

Fairbanks Juvenile Treatment Court: An Evaluation Plan by Teresa W. Carns and Susan McKelvie. Anchorage, AK: Alaska Judicial Council, Nov 2008.

Other publications

"Anchorage Mental Health Court" described in Emerging Judicial Strategies for the Mentally Ill in the Criminal Caseload: Mental Health Courts in Fort Lauderdale, Seattle, San Bernardino, and Anchorage by John S. Goldkamp and Cheryl Irons-Guynn. Bureau of Justice Assistance Monograph, April 2000, NCJ 182504.

National

General information

• "Mental Health Courts" by Karen Welch. Mental Health World 3(5), Spring 2002.
• "Mental Health Courts." Position statement of the National Mental Health Association adopted by the NMHA Board of Directors on November 17, 2001.
• "Fact Sheet: What Are Mental Health Courts?" Association of University Centers on Disabilities, 2001.

Individual courts

• Broward County Mental Health Court. The nation's first mental health court, established in 1997 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Admits mentally ill defendants charged with misdemeanors.
• King County District Court Mental Health Court. Established in 1999 in King County (Seattle), Washington. Admits mentally ill defendants charged with misdemeanors.
• San Bernardino Mental Health Court. Established as a project of the San Bernardino Superior Court, California, in 1999. Admits mentally ill defendants charged with misdemeanors or nonviolent lower level felonies.

Publications

Emerging Judicial Strategies for the Mentally Ill in the Criminal Caseload: Mental Health Courts in Fort Lauderdale, Seattle, San Bernardino, and Anchorage by John S. Goldkamp and Cheryl Irons-Guynn. Bureau of Justice Assistance Monograph, April 2000, NCJ 182504.