University and Public Behavioral Health Organization Collaboration

Download or read book University and Public Behavioral Health Organization Collaboration written by Kirk Heilbrun and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book's major purpose is to offer detailed information about successful collaborations between universities and public behavioral health organizations in criminal justice contexts. This introductory chapter briefly describes the nine contributed chapters in this book, each illustrating a particular collaboration. Each contributed chapter describes the collaboration in more detail, including purposes, beginning, leadership, who is served, services, operations, effectiveness measurement, financial arrangements, and lessons learned. The present chapter also defines relevant terms and reviews the literature relevant to this areas. The particular focus is on collaborations that are relatively longstanding and successful, with the goal of aggregating the various aspects of the different projects into a larger model for success"--