Keys to a successful jail-based competency restoration program include a multidisciplinary team design that uses a comprehensive, person-centered approach to engage individuals in the court-education process. This requires careful planning of program design considering staffing, housing, logistics, and coordination with correctional and legal entities as well as comprehensive clinical management from identification and treatment of mental illness to clinical programming to discharge continuity of care.

• Describe staffing considerations for a comprehensive jail-based competency restoration program
• Explain the clinical components of a jail-based competency resotoration program
• Identify the correctional and legal entities with which effective collaboration and communication is necessary

Level: Basic