Author: Kirk HeilbrunPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190052856
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
"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"--