National
Symposium on Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System
April 10-11, 2003
Radisson Airport Hotel & Conference Center
1375 N. Cassady Avenue
Columbus, Ohio
Capital University Law School,
The Supreme Court of Ohio and the Capital University Law Review are proud
to sponsor a symposium on mental illness issues and the criminal justice
system. Increasingly, more and more inmates in the nation's prison systems
are mentally ill. Prisons are becoming the institutions of last resort
for the mentally ill. Collaboration between the criminal justice system
and the mental health treatment system is critical if we are to find solutions
to this problem. The National Symposium on Mental Illness and the Criminal
Justice System brings together leading state and national experts
to look at collaboration between courts and the mental health system;
appropriate sentence responses for defendants with mental illness, crisis
intervention teams and assertive community treatment programs; and successful
uses of mental health courts and other diversion programs.
Speakers will include former
U.S. Senator Paul Simon who is now directing the Public Policy Institute
at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale; Dr. Fred Frese, a prominent
psychologist who was diagnosed with schizophrenia 30 years ago and went
on to obtain his Ph.D. in Psychology; Michael Hogan, director of the Ohio
Department of Health and chair of President George W. Bush's New Freedom
Commission on Mental Health; judges who are among the nation's leaders
in establishing mental health courts in Florida, Indiana and Ohio; consumer
advocacy groups including the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and
Ohio Advocates for Mental Health; and law enforcement officials who have
established successful crisis intervention teams in Memphis, Tennessee
and Akron, Ohio.
This symposium is made possible with a grant from the Ohio State Bar
Foundation Continuing Legal Education Fund.
This course has been approved by the Ohio Supreme Court Commission
on Continuing Legal Education for 11 CLE credit hours, including 0 hours
in ethics, 0 hours in substance abuse, and 0 hours in professionalism
instruction.
This course has been approved for 11 clock hours of Continuing
Professional Education by the State of Ohio Counselor and Social Worker
Board.
This course has been approved by the Ohio Department of Alcohol
and Drug Addiction Services for 12.5 RCHs for Chemical Dependency Professionals.
Procedure and Torts.
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