Topic Area: Justice & Courts

This Region 2 Stakeholder Committee meeting document synthesizes findings from four major reports on youth behavioral health, juvenile justice, Medicaid services, and SB3 funding to guide regional behavioral health systems planning in New Mexico.

Senate Bill 3, the Behavioral Health Reform and Investment Act, establishes a regional planning framework for behavioral health services across New Mexico, creating governance structures, reporting requirements, and investment strategies that will directly shape how Bernalillo County develops and coordinates its behavioral health system.

This is a national guidance document from the Stepping Up initiative providing counties with specific methodologies and targets for reducing the prevalence of serious mental illness (SMI) in jails, offering critical metrics and formulas that Bernalillo County can use to track and achieve meaningful reductions in justice-involved populations with SMI.

The Stepping Up Readiness Toolkit provides a framework for counties to assess and build their capacity to reduce the overrepresentation of individuals with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders in local jails through cross-systems collaboration.

This strategy document from the Bernalillo County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council outlines a coordinated approach to enhancing behavioral health services for justice-involved individuals through diversion, reentry support, and community connections.

This is the 2022-2026 Strategic Plan for the Bernalillo County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC), which outlines multi-agency goals and objectives to improve criminal case processing, enhance services for justice-involved individuals, and strengthen behavioral health and diversion programs across the Second Judicial District.

This comprehensive toolkit provides a research-backed strategic framework, self-assessment tools, planning guides, and financing strategies for jurisdictions seeking to expand the System of Care approach to children's mental health — making it one of the most actionable national resources available for behavioral health systems change planning.

This Legislative Finance Committee policy spotlight analyzes crime trends, criminal justice system performance, and diversion program effectiveness in Bernalillo County, providing data-driven recommendations for reducing crime through treatment, accountability improvements, and reentry services.