Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, wins 'Oscar' in government.On Wednesday, July 27, the Allegheny County Human Services Department was awarded the Innovations in American Government Award from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government for its unique approach to working with people who have behavioral health Behavioral health was first used in the 1980's to name the combination of the fields mental health and substance abuse. As an example, an organization serving both mental health and substance abuse clients might refer to its practice as behavioral health or diagnoses as they are released from Pennsylvania penitentiaries. These awards are known as the "Oscars" of government. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Allegheny County State Forensic Belonging to courts of justice. forensic 1) adj. from Latin forensis for "belonging to the forum," ancient Rome's site for public debate, and currently meaning pertaining to the courts. Program was one out of only six winners of the 2005 award out of more than 1,000 applicants from all sectors of government. The program has successfully reintegrated more than 300 individuals with behavioral health issues into the community upon release from prison through a program that includes personal interviews while in prison, post-incarceration housing, psychiatric psy·chi·at·ric adj. Of or relating to psychiatry. psychiatric adjective Pertaining to psychiatry, mental disorders treatment, bus passes, new clothes and help in applying for eligible benefits and job search assistance. The award will provide the program with a $100,000 grant to support replication In database management, the ability to keep distributed databases synchronized by routinely copying the entire database or subsets of the database to other servers in the network. There are various replication methods. of its creative efforts. The program has already shown a significant return on investment. Its recidivism recidivism: see criminology. rate of 10.4 percent is about one-sixth that of the national rate for individuals released from state prisons with a behavioral health diagnosis. |
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