Presentation given at the NACo Conference in Pittsburg Pa - Strengthening the Public Safety Net for Veterans and their families.

1. NACo Town Hall
Session
Our Troops are Coming Home
Are We Ready?
Strengthening the Public Safety Net for
Our Veterans and their Families
Monday July 16, 2012
Leon Evans Gilbert Gonzales
President and Chief Executive Officer Director, Communications and Diversion Initiatives
The Center for Health Care Services The Center for Health Care Services
Bexar County Mental Health Authority Bexar County Mental Health Authority
San Antonio, Texas San Antonio, Texas
levans@chcsbc.org ggonzales@chcsbc.org
www.chcsbc.org

2. Military
Bases
• Lackland
Air Force
Training Center
• Randoph
• Brook Army
Medical Center
• Ft. Sam
Houston
BRAC: 2.1 Billion in Military Construction Center for the Intrepid

3. - An Old Slide -
The Jail Diversion Process
Point of Contact with Law CIT/Deputy 24/7 Crisis Emergency
Enforcement Mobile Services Transport
Outreach Team to Hospital
*Pre-Booking Diversion
Referrals to
Community
Arrested Magistrate Post-Booking Diversion Providers
Court
Pre-Trial Bexar
Community-based
Diversion County Jail
Wraparound Care
Genesis Probation,
Incarceration, Treatment in lieu of
Parole Incarceration
Residential
Respite
•Non Violent Misdemeanor •Pre Booking/Post Booking •Therapeutic Justice Approach

5. Texas Veteran Jail Diversion
and Trauma
Recovery Project (TVJDTR)
VETERANS SERVICES program :
• inclusion and expansion of trauma specific treatment and trauma informed practice
• monitoring of the delivery of veteran peer support services related to behavioral
health issues
• monitoring of the implementation of family member facilitated family-to-family
education groups related to behavioral health issues
• developing of collaborative advisory groups for supports and services for veterans
and their families to initiate
• enhance or expand community resource coordination related to basic needs with
community partners, individuals and organizations
• linkage to Therapeutic Justice Services

6. • Prevention
Diversion • Treatment
• Support
Using
Training First Therapeutic
Responders Courts
Using Placing Boots
Addressing
Peer to Peer On
Trauma The Ground

7. Collaborative Services Sites
Downtown San Antonio
7

8. www.gainscenter.samhsa.gov  800.311.4246

9. Our Troops are Coming Home
How can we get ready ?
• Establish community based practices for diverting veterans with
mental illness and substance abuse needs from incarceration and
ERs
• Establish trauma informed and trauma specific services for Vets
and training for Staff
• Implement or expand Crisis Intervention Training: include PTSD
and TBI instruction for Law Enforcement
• Establish or expand Specialty Courts: i.e. Veteran’s Court, Mental
Health Court and Substance Abuse Court
• Establish or expand Peer to Peer Network Volunteer and Support
• Establish or expand “Boots on the Ground” case management

10. Thank you !
www.chcsbc.org
Leon Evans, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Center for Health
Care Services San Antonio, Texas
For additional information contact: Leon Evans,
Ph. 210 731-1300 Email: levans@chcsbc.org
For online access to this presentation please go to http://www.diversioninitiatives.net