Workshop 3C: Mental Health Calendars and Mental Health Courts

This session will offer a forum in which the participants will learn about and provide input into the judicial system’s response to persons with mental illness at the misdemeanor and felony levels. Discussion will center upon: What are Mental Health Calendars and Courts? What’s the difference? Who, in Hawai‘i, has these? How do they work? What are the benefits? What are the obstacles? Some discussion of national trends in these areas will be offered.