JPORT is an integrated mental health/substance abuse treatment team that is based on Minkoff's best practices co-occurring model and the Sequential Intercepts for Change Model (SIM).
Staff divert individuals with serious mental illness (and often co-occurring substance use disorders), serious emotional disturbance and developmental disabilities in contact with the justice system from jail and provide linkages to community-based substance abuse treatment and support services.
There are multiple ways for an inmate to be referred for an initial mental health evaluation, which is used to help determine if the inmate meets criteria for psychiatric services.