Actively Recruiting
Improving Mental Health Treatment for Individuals in Crisis Interacting With the Criminal Justice System
Led by Cambridge Health Alliance · Updated on 2026-05-11
1040
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
138 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
C
Cambridge Health Alliance
Lead Sponsor
M
Michigan State University
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
The proposed Center will leverage burgeoning real-time data linkage capabilities among health systems, Medicaid payors, and criminal legal (e.g., jail booking data, jail release data) systems, to identify individuals coming in and out of jail for suicide assessment and prevention, and to better coordinate care across these disparate systems. This Center will advance the fields of suicide prevention and criminal legal system-based mental health by solving a well-known, central problem in both fields: the inability to track and intervene with individuals moving in and out of both and often multiple systems. The goal is near-term reductions in the U.S. suicide rate.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Improving Mental Health Treatment for Individuals in Crisis Interacting With the Criminal Justice System
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Cambridge Health Alliance patients aged 18 to 100
- For TAU arm: Patients from cities other than Cambridge with police involvement between 2009 and 2019
- For FSJS arm: Patients from Cambridge with contact with Cambridge Police Department between 2009 and 2025
- For FSJS+Navigator arm: Patients aged 18-100 brought to the Emergency Department under police supervision for mental health evaluation
You will not qualify if you...
- Patients residing in Cambridge are excluded from the TAU arm
- Patients outside Cambridge are excluded from the FSJS arm
- Under 18 years of age
- No identified criminal legal system contact during the study period
- Individuals incarcerated at Middlesex Jail/Prison without release by December 31, 2019, for TAU and FSJS arms
- Individuals who become incarcerated during the study for FSJS+Navigator arm
- Individuals entering the Emergency Department not under police supervision (e.g., voluntary psychiatric admissions) for FSJS+Navigator arm
- Currently incarcerated individuals in the FSJS+Navigator arm
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Cambridge Health Alliance
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 02141
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
B
Benjamin Cook
CONTACT
T
Taylor Witkowski
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
SINGLE
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Model
SEQUENTIAL
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
3
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