Keeping Mentally Ill Out of Jail and in Treatment: Rochester Model Works in Breakthrough Study

A Rochester intervention called R-FACT, developed and tested by URMC professor of Psychiatry J. Steven Lamberti, M.D., and his research team, is the first of its kind in the country to prove its overall effectiveness and potential to reduce the high number of mentally ill individuals in U.S. prisons. A newly published study shows the model reduces criminal convictions, jail time and hospitalizations by roughly 50 percent, and keeps mentally ill individuals in treatment twice as long.
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