Improving Mental Health Treatment for Individuals in Crisis Interacting With the Criminal-Legal System

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.

NCT Number	NCT06564948
Lead Sponsor	Cambridge Health Alliance Collaborators: Michigan State University, Mount Auburn Hospital
Conditions	Suicide Risk, Psychiatric Disorders
Enrollment	1,040 participants
Start Date	2025-02-01
Primary Completion	2027-09-30 (estimated)
Study Completion	2027-09-30 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2026-06-04