The systems in place to serve people with mental health and substance abuse diagnoses as they engage the criminal justice system is often largely fragmented.

Elements like mental health treatment, courts, human services, law enforcement, substance abuse treatment, prisons, primary healthcare, probation, veteran services, and others all operate in silos rather than as a well- orchestrated continuum of care.

As a consequence of the deficits in system coordination, prisons get more crowded, costs spiral out of control, and—most tragically—lives are lost or hopelessly damaged.

Municipal, state, and federal governments are struggling to cope with the budgetary and human costs of dealing with mental health- and substance abuse-involved people as they encounter the criminal justice system.

MHISSION Translational Systems (MTS) saw the need and developed a suite of systems to help bring a new level of coordination to multi-faceted services. Technology is part of the solution. Data for decision support is another part. Understanding the pathologies and co-morbidities of mental health and substance abuse is yet another. The inside knowledge of governmental and health care systems, how they interoperate—or fail to interoperate—is another aspect.

Only MTS brings the requisite cross-disciplinary knowledge and experience needed to create new integrated systems and processes that police, courts, healthcare, corrections, community mental health and the rest of the continuum agree on.