SAMHSA’s GAINS Center Seeks Communities to Participate in Sequential Intercept Mapping (SIM) Workshops October 21, 2015
SAMHSA’s GAINS Center is currently soliciting applications from communities interested in developing integrated strategies to better identify and respond to the needs of adults with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders in contact with the criminal justice system.
Sequential Intercept Mapping (SIM) is a 1.5-day workshop designed to allow local, multidisciplinary teams of people from jurisdictions to facilitate collaboration and to identify and discuss ways in which barriers between the criminal justice, mental health, and substance use systems can be reduced and to begin development of integrated local plans.
This year’s solicitation targets communities that are focusing on Intercepts 1 and 2 of the Sequential Intercept Model, which emphasize early diversion. Applications should emphasize Intercepts 1 and 2 in their workshop goals and in the representatives invited to participate in the workshop and strategic planning session.
SAMHSA’s GAINS Center will offer this workshop free of charge in selected communities between March and August 2016. There are no fees for registration, tuition, or materials associated with these workshops. The GAINS Center will pay all costs associated with pre and post-workshop coordination, conference calls, and facilitator time and travel.
To apply for a 2016 SIM workshop, please download the below solicitation and submit a completed application form no later than December 4, 2015. To download the Sequential Intercept Mapping workshop solicitation, click here.
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