{"id":9502,"date":"2018-04-20T14:14:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T18:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebw.tv\/?p=9502"},"modified":"2018-05-03T16:47:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T20:47:45","slug":"six-participants-graduate-from-mental-health-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thumbcoast.tv\/six-participants-graduate-from-mental-health-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Participants Graduate from Mental Health Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mclaren.org\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Sponsored by: McLaren Port Huron\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Written by Audrey Sochor<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Six people appeared before St. Clair County Probate Judge John Tomlinson on April 17, but instead of prehearing jitters they wore smiles on their faces. They had just graduated Mental Health Court.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A joint initiative between St. Clair County\u2019s 72<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>nd<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> District Court and Community Mental Health, the program combines traditional probation aspects with mental health services.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201c[Mental Health Court] has given me a new lease on life,\u201d said Travis Armstrong, program graduate. \u201cIt\u2019s such a great program. They help you get very successful and striving for work, getting off probation; I have utmost respect for this program. Now I have almost a year sobriety, I\u2019m working now full-time, I\u2019ve got money in my pocket and I\u2019m not in jail.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The program focuses more on rehabilitation than retribution. While participants must follow probation requirements such as monitoring and refraining from drug and alcohol use, they also receive group or individual therapy sessions, psychotropic medications and other support services.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe idea is to target people with mental illness or an intellectual disability that have had difficulty with the law or difficulty with their daily living as a result of that, and typically those people have a hard time following through with their services \u2013 maintaining housing and employment,\u201d said Michael Brown, program coordinator for Mental Health Court. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Brown added the program has a 10 to 20 percent higher success rate of keeping people out of further trouble with the law than normal probation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Referrals to the program come from a variety of sources including attorneys, family members and social workers. 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