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Report outlines Mental Health Court successes
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Yolo County Judge David Rosenberg, right, congratulates Rayshawn Taylor for graduating from the county’s Mental Health Court. Courtesy photo
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The Yolo County Mental Health Court team has published its outcome report for fiscal year 2019-20, showing significant reductions in arrests, jail bed days and hospital bed days among Mental Health Court participants.
Mental Health Court is a minimum 18-month, court-based treatment and monitoring system for adult offenders with a serious mental illness. Mental Health Court is designed to increase the treatment engagement of the participants while reducing arrests, hospitalizations and jail time during and after their involvement and participation in the program.