North Carolina initiative offers tailored care to justice‐involved
North Carolina officials last week unveiled a pilot initiative under which Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) teams will offer tailored support to individuals with serious mental illness who are released from incarceration. Officials are characterizing the $9.5 million state investment as a broad‐based effort to improve individual and community outcomes, with reducing criminal recidivism a primary but not sole objective.
Authors
- Gary A. Enos
Publication Details
- Journal
- Mental Health Weekly
- Published
- 2025-11-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/mhw.34656
- Primary Topic
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00